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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory Fragmentation Question
Message-ID: <7154@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 01:28:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 01:28:53 1987
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In article <556489503.138.te07.linesville.ibm032@andrew.cmu.edu> te07#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Epperly) writes:
>Am I correct in thinking that the Amiga's memory management causes
>memory to be gradually fragmented into a bunch of little chunks?  If
>this is so, has anyone written a program to coalesce these small chunks
>into bigger chunks?

Would that be necessary?  Disk accesses take longer when a disk is
fragmented, but memory accesses wouldn't.  I really can't think of
any reason why one would need to do this.

Sean


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