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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multifinder memory costs
Message-ID: <7709@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 16 Mar 88 20:20:10 GMT
References: <62100001@ccvaxa>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <62100001@ccvaxa> jchiu@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
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>	350K for the system
>	160K for the finder

The difference is probably system resource that you don't notice under
UniFinder because they are in the application heap.

Under MultiFinder, resources that come out of the System file are loaded
into the system heap, rather than the application heap.  A good example are
fonts.  Under regular Finders, any fonts used by the Finder would be in the
8xxK of memory assigned to it.  Under MultiFinder, this memory would fall
into the System category.

The advantage of this is that if you run another application that uses the
same fonts, the resources will be loaded only once.

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