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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Flushing Devices; C= doco (mutter!)
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:01:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <crystal.726440462@glia>
- References: <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au> <1993Jan7.104601.19603@trl.oz.au>
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- In <1993Jan7.104601.19603@trl.oz.au> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:
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- >From article <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au>, by gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan):
- >[...]
- >> Passing thought ; why the heck aren't unused libraries/devices
- >> flushed automatically anyway? Sounds like a legacy of the days
- >> when hard disks were rare and dragging a device off floppy was
- >> time-consuming. Those days are gone...
-
- >For some, maybe. But memory is cheap, so why not leave it resident unless
- >there is a panic?
-
- Memory is not all THAT cheap...and with only 2Meg of Fast ram...*I*'ve
- panicked! This is a VERY important consideration - flushing memory and
- getting things back to an unfragmented state so PageStream doesn't crash.
- *grumble*
-
- A POX on programmers who can't clean up after themselves...(or their programs!)
-
- Crystal
- ;>
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