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From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Resource Status
Summary: What about ARP?
Keywords: ARP, Resource tracking
Message-ID: <485@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 13:46:18 GMT
References: <7257@dayton.UUCP> <5261@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
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Organization: TELXON Corporation, Akron OH
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	Everyone seems to be overlooking a resource tracking system that
has been available for quite a while. ARP provides automatic tracking
and freeing of memory, libraries, windows, etc. I have used this extensively,
and found that the memory routines to be the most usefull, so that I can just
request the memory I need, and not bother to free it at all. The arp exit
routine handles all of that for me. If you are doing something that requires
you to free it or reallocate it's size later, you do have to keep one
additional variable for every item you want to free, so there is a little
more work than in Unix, but as most applications simply want to allocate
memory on the fly, or at run-time, the default handling works great.

			Dave