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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: 10000 GS Handles?
Message-ID: <34581@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 89 04:58:21 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.180417.26622@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1989Sep6.180417.26622@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>[...]
>   Also, I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of blocks of
>memory that can be allocated through the memory manager?  Could I, for instance,
>allocate 10000 100 byte blocks? (assuming I had 10000*100=1meg memory)

Not sure if you can have that many handles, but you don't *want* to--some
memory manager operations would get very slow.  (Plus, there is currently
a 20-byte overhead for each handle you allocate, so you'd be wasting about
20% of the memory by allocating truckloads of 100-byte blocks.)
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