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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Make the Memory Manager reentrant
Message-ID: <230.25ffd270@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Mar 90 04:35:44 GMT
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How hard would it be to make the Memory Manager reentrant? Think
of how much easier it would make things for everybody.

If you think it can't be done, have a look at the process-level
memory-allocation routines in VAX/VMS (LIB$GET_VM and LIB$FREE_VM).
They will not only do interlocking between AST (process-level interrupt)
and non-AST-level code, but since version 4.0 there's even been
support for multiple threads at non-AST level--such as Ada tasks.

Come on, Apple!