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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need an LDEF that breaks the 32K barrier
Message-ID: <23645@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:38:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: unix.23645
References: <4501@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <3604@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
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In article <3604@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes:
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>One easy way round this is to store pointers (or better yet,
>handles) to your data in the list.  You can then have >100,000
>items in your list with no problems.  Building the list will be
>much quicker, too.  You'll have to write an LDEF to draw the
>items in the list, but LDEFs are terribly simple to write.

Jeremy,

I would like to see how you get the list manager to deal with
 > 100,000 items with no problems. I see a limit of 8192 by storing ptrs
or handles in the list. 16384 if you get really tricky.

Matt













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