Labels:book | bulletin board | hakham | reckoner | sky OCR: May 1997 PowerFantasmTM User Mamral Rey Fantasm Frequently Asked Questions. 1. Why does take a lot of memory?" Simply put, it's the usual memory versus speed discussion. There were two ways we could have written Fantasm The first is using small blocks of memory and allocating more as we need it This gives much smaller memory footprint. but slows us down lot because the additional blocks of memory would have to be found via linked list. which means searching. The second method to get all available memory from the applications partition, then allocate our own blocks on a percentage basis. This means we can fine tune the "allocation, and speed up Fantasm. If it wants label name it knows exactly where the names are stored simply bv reading global variable. The down side of this approach IS tha ...
