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- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.174926.27627@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:49:26 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug20.010535.29124@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <amfahr-190892202809@ditka.taligent.com> <1992Aug20.150102.19730@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.150102.19730@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <amfahr-190892202809@ditka.taligent.com> amfahr@taligent.com (Jeff Amfahr) writes:
- >>The real important piece of information is that the person who said 7.0 is
- >>faster is using a ci. The ci had a horrible bug in the memory manager which
- >>caused frequent memory allocation to be VERY slow. This bugs was fixed in
- >>7.0.
- >
- >Nonononononononono. The Memory Manager bug of which you speak affected one
- >or two applications that allocated lots and lots of non-relocatable memory
- >blocks. It had nothing to do with "frequent memory allocation" in general.
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- I apologize for posting this incorrect information. I have since been told
- (by Jeff) that he worked on the bug while at Apple, and that it did indeed
- affect more than one or two applications. I wrote based on my memory of
- articles from other Apple persons back when this bug first became known
- (anybody remember MMInit?).
-
- I do actually know what I'm talking about sometimes, though. Honest. ;-)
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