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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Disk swapping joys...
Keywords: swapping
Message-ID: <9492@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 21:33:29 GMT
References: <37707@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
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Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <37707@cornell.UUCP> wayner@cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
>I just tried a program I wrote on a one drive MacPlus. The memory
>and the system components were fine, but I must have swapped the
>program disk with the system disk about 30 times before the program
>ran. What are the best ways to load all the different code resources
>into memory at the beginning before running anything and generating
>system calls? I suppose this might belong in alt.folklore, but I would
>like to make my code run smoother for the people who still live in
>the pre-hard-disk world.
>
>Thanks to anyone who can give me some hints...


>-Peter Wayner
>(wayner@cs.cornell.edu)


You might want to set the preload bit of your resources to true.
This might help but on a mac plus you might be running up to
some memory limits. What does your program do? Does it use
a lot of resources?

Any more information would help.






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Matthew Mora
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