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From: goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder woes. DA's
Message-ID: <7152@apple.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 19:41:32 GMT
References: <7965@j.ms.uky.edu> <411@ut-emx.UUCP> <7122@apple.UUCP> <937@usfvax2.UUCP> <1948@elrond.CalComp.COM> <2388@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <2388@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu (Marc Kaufman) writes:
>...I think it is unfriendly to ask applications to include
>an additional 1 or 2 Megabytes in the SIZE resource, just so I can lay
>out the page (high resolution pages, in color).  Since the MAC is nominally
>a "single user" machine, why not allow an application to request a non-
>contiguous memory allocation.  I know that there are potential fragmentation
>problems, but we are probably not launching arbitrary user tasks while this
>extra memory is in use, and in any event the process can request just what
>it needs -- which is more efficient than guessing at 'SIZE' time.
>

This is possible using the MultiFinder dynamic memory calls.  In fact, this
is a much preferred method for handling transient memory requests.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer