Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MacDraw II's background activity Message-ID: <8336@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 Mar 91 11:51:01 GMT References: <1CE00001.bfaigj7@tbomb.ice.com> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Tasha Yar Appreciation Soc... oh, sh*t Lines: 17 In article <1CE00001.bfaigj7@tbomb.ice.com>, time@ice.com (Tim Endres) writes: > I wonder if they are not doing some type of "garbage collection"? > Boy, wouldn't that be something :) You sound surprised. If, for "garbage collection", you instead say "purging of resources" then it sounds quite likely, although the Mac Toolbox is probably doing it, not MDII. MS Word was doing the same on this Mac Plus here. I wondered what it was, then when I checked the free heap space, it said "15K". "Ooohh," thought I. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "I see what you see: Nurse Bibs on a rubber horse."