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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
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Subject: Re: How to malloc memory VERY dynamically and not out of app heap?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 11:10:44 EST
Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
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In article <2029@seti.inria.fr>, pete@adele.inria.fr (Pete Keleher) writes:
> 
> I disagree. You are saying that each application should manage its own
> virtual memory. It is precisely to avoid this that we have
> application-independant virtual memory supported by the system. If you want
> to read a 10meg file, read into memory and let the system page it on and
> off of disk.

OH Please do! And my commercial product will beat yours hands down
EVERY time! When you force the user to sit through a 10Megabyte move
of data from one place on their hard disk to another place JUST so
they can read the first page of the file, your product is history!

Just another classic example of a "computing thoery" mindset missing the
"practical world" mark by several miles. As I have told every student
of programming I have ever taught:

	"Use your head for more than syntax checking!"

We do not hire CS majors. They make terrible programmers. :)

tim.

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