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From: jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: CompactMem with MultiFinder partitions
Keywords: Multifinder, Partitions, fragmented memory
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.041856.5918@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 04:18:56 GMT
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If you have multiple applications being launched and terminating in random
order, you are bound to fragment your memory and not be able to obtain a 
application partition as big as the free memory.
If we were dealing with handle, a call to CompactMem would do the trick
(as in NewHandle or NewPtr).  Can a similar approach be undertaken by a
little program that would move an entire partition in memory and update
the value of A5 for that partition?

In fact, if there exists such a tool, I would be pleased to hear about it.
If not and the method I suggested is feasible, I might write a little
application implementing it.

Thanks.  Jerome 

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