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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Memory Types???
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Date: 18 Apr 88 12:56:24 GMT
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    Can someone please tell me the proper memory nomenclature?  What I want to
define are three different catagories of memory request:

                CHIP   :   must be chip memory.

                FAST   :   must be fast memory.

                FSCH   :   fast if possible, if not the chip if possible.

    Right now, these are always private to the requesting task.  I'd like to
set up the memory allocation system so that it returns memory as fast as
possible and has reasonalbe garbage collection and defragmentation capability.

    Also, I am considering forcing longword alignment.  Since I am already 
using 8 bytes for link fields and these really should be on lw boundries it
seems worthwhile to me.

                                                        Thanks,


                                                              Wade.

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