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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Handles and Virtual Memory
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Date: 2 Jan 90 18:34:49 GMT
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In article <9438@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> I've been programming the Mac that long myself, with the result that I
> no longer think of handles as a chore.  I kind of like them, they don't
> send me tearing my hair, I rarely even have to devote any conscious
> thought to them.  I don't understand why they are so reviled.

Indeed, I've often been tempted to write a rudimentary version of the Mac
memory manager for things like UNIX machines or PCs, simply so that I
can have relocatable (and more importantly, *resizable*) blocks of memory
without having to do my own memory management & reallocation.  Of course,
I cut my memory management teeth on Lisp, which also usually has garbage
collection, which makes life even nicer...

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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