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Article #2313Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:33
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:33
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In article <nevin-2309950419270001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu>, Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote: >No. Unlike you, they had practical problems to solve. You stating that >it wasn't a problem doesn't make it so. You *still* haven't posted a >solution to what to do if the heap is so fragmented that you can't satisfy >an allocation request, other than quitting the app or buying more >hardware. You can block the process until the request can be satisfied. You can raise some sort of exception and let the process handle it in whatever way it wants (including the option to try to restart the request). In any case, you have saved space by not bloating your code with silly wrappers around an overzealous global heap management scheme. -- PGP key id is 0xD3C7995D. Molybdenum 95! Got your ounce of fission byproduct yet?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Date: 24 Sep 1995 10:33:40 -0700 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <4444pkINNm49@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <MLM.95Sep20011239@monaco.cs.brown.edu> <43qddkINNpti@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <nevin-2309950419270001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca