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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Why doesn't removing fonts/DA's make system smaller?
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Date: 5 Oct 89 13:39:12 GMT
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Fonts and DAs are not loaded into RAM until they are actually used; so
whether they are in the System file or not, they don't affect the
amount of memory used (as shown in "about Finder") until you call for
them.  If you are not running under MultiFinder, they will never
affect this amount of memory (unless they explicitly do something
which uses the system heap).  Under MultiFinder, fonts and DAs are
normally loaded into the system heap, but when they are no longer in
use, the space they occupied MAY be reclaimed.

	/JBL