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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Message-ID: <10926@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 89 10:37:12 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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In article <5713@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <10908@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>>>You will not, however, be able to deallocate its resources.
>>Hmmm. Why not? Doesn't AmigaDos keep track of owned resources?
>
>	No, not in general.  It can get expensive in memory/spped to do so.

Why? Seems to me that resource allocation is an infrequently done thing.
It also seems to me that resources could be tracked with bitmaps. Where
is the serious speed/memory degradation?

Assuming I'm right, what's the REAL reason resources aren't tracked?

Sean
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