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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory Fragmentation Question
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 15:30:45 EDT
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>Such a program would INDEED be useful...from some of the posting on the
>net, I see that some of my "can't allocate xx bytes" could have been caused
>by memory fragmentation.  That's for micro-EMACS; I suppose similar messages

	Its not really the actual executable that hurts (assuming it has
been compiled with scatter loading enabled), but the fact that many such
programs sometimes allocate incredibly huge chunks of memory when they don't 
have to.

So, how bout a programmer's note:	When designing a program try to 
design any memory allocation such that, although the total allocated memory
may be huge, the individual contiguous chunks are not.

					-Matt