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- From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Memory Management Question
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:45:56 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- Message-ID: <1ihq8kINNt3i@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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- Keywords: Mac, Memory
-
- (I have no idea how the Mac OS works internally, so please correct me
- if I'm wrong:)
- Whenever an application is opened under System 7 it reserves a specific
- fixed amount of memory. It seems to me that this amount of memory occupied
- cannot be changed while the application is running.
- The problem is that many applications need much of this memory only
- temporarily in certain situations (e.g. when checking the spelling)
- according to the "About this Macintosh" info.
- Is it possible to have dynamic memory management on the Mac so that
- an application allocates only the amount of memory it currently really
- needs and leaves the rest for others?
- (I'm talking about an 68020 LC with 4MB and System 7.0.1 with tuneup 1.1.1)
- Thanks,
- Georg
-
- georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
-