Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: mshrink & lattice C Summary: someone wrote a slow routine to zero memory Message-ID: <446@mks.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 21:18:58 GMT References: <1670@alliant.Alliant.COM> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 23 In article <1670@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) writes: - In article <19880427223042.6.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes: - -> On startup of a GEM program all available memory is allocated (and zeroed). - -> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - ->Is THAT why every time I add more memory to my 520 I have to wait longer - ->after loading an image before it starts running???? Does anyone know of - ->a way to disable this 'feechur'? - - short - of patching Mshrink, i don't know how to disable this, as you put it, - 'feechur'. actually, i like the fact that i'll always get space filled - with zeros. Yes, this is why it takes so long for a program to start doing something. It seems the routine to write zeroes is poorly written. I noticed it when I upgraded to 1 Meg. I believe a fix for this is one of the items in the new ROMs in the Megas -- it wouldn't do to have the machine look slow even before the memory is expanded! -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043