Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!ags
From: ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander George Morison Smith)
Subject: Re: Is there a memory management bug in the fx,ci, and si ROM ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.180359.24550@ccs.carleton.ca>
Summary: Doesn't matter for ParcPlace
Keywords: Smalltalk ParcPlace Macintosh Memory Manager Bug
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <127472@linus.mitre.org> <11678@goofy.Apple.COM> <520@scubed.SCUBED.COM>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 18:03:59 GMT

If there is a bug that slows down memory management on the Mac, it won't
affect ParcPlace all that much (in my opinion).  From what I can tell,
PP Smalltalk just allocates a huge hunk of memory to itself on startup
and then does its own Smalltalk memory management inside that hunk
(garbage collection, object allocation etc aren't standard Macintosh
memory operations). 

- Alex