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From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resource ID allocation
Message-ID: <2752@codonics.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 91 04:38:49 GMT
References: <9102141652.AA06583@asl.dl.nec.com>
Organization: Codonics, Inc., Middleburg Heights, OH
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>A better solution would be to have more smarts in the server to allocate
>resource ids better.  A simple approach would be to have a bitmap which
>indicates the allocated/free state of each resource.  With a 22 bit resource
>id, this would be 512k bytes for each client.  The idea is that a long-running
>client would request this feature so the server would need this table only for 
>certain clients.

Sounds like somebody's been working with virtual memory systems too long.

	:-)



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