Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!2011_552
From: 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vd0: was Re: Canonical List continued
Message-ID: <5436.2606ca2d@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 21 Mar 90 05:26:21 GMT
References: <1340@mindlink.UUCP>
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In article <1340@mindlink.UUCP>, a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
> 
[...]
> I still prefer VD0: to RAD: simply because it doesn't use any memory
> which isn't actually occupied by files.  If you set up an 880K RAD:
> that memory is gone for good; a VD0: of any size uses hardly anything
> at all until you start to actually put stuff into it, and frees up
> memory when you delete files in it.
> 
I prefer vd0: and vdk: for the same reason.  I used to use Absoft fortran
a lot; it places variables on the stack, and my programs required
a _lot_ of stack space (1 meg or more).  Rad: ties up the space 
permanently.  I occasionally needed to dedicate almost everything to
the stack.  A recoverable ramdisk which expands only as needed was a must.

> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
> For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.
-- 
Terry Gaetz     --  gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca  --  gaetz@uwovax.bitnet