Memory usage

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 8:38 AM -0800 4/5/2002, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>MetaCard doesn't use memory the way most MacOS 9 apps do, it uses memory
>the way other operating systems do -- that is, except for a few things,
>it pulls RAM from the available pool in the system heap. This is how all
>other OSs work (including OS X).

(Actually, this is a normal way to do memory management in Mac OS. (Other
operating systems don't do it exactly the same way - there is no fixed
allocated area for the app in other OSs, generally speaking.) The technique
of using MultiFinder memory goes back to, well, the beginning of
MultiFinder, and it's fairly common to see it, especially in apps that by
their nature have wildly varying memory requirements depending on exactly
what the user does.)

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