Re: Passing *possible* variables to a handler
Re: Passing *possible* variables to a handler
- Subject: Re: Passing *possible* variables to a handler
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:17:07 +0100
Christopher Nebel wrote:
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> Which got me wondering: why doesn't
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> AS allocate twice as much extra space that was previously allocated,
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> trading some memory efficiency for improved speed?
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I think the reason is that in the days of the Founders [1], your average
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Mac only had 2MB of RAM and no virtual memory. They were therefore very
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conservative in how they used memory, and a lot of those decisions are
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still with us.
Aha, of course. Should've answered my own question if I'd only thought a
bit more about it... tsk.
[Insert Pythonesque skit here beginning: "You had TWO Megabytes? Luxury!";]
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[1] Dealing with AppleScript, like any sufficiently old software
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project, resembles Constitutional law. When you don't have access to
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the original authors (none of the AppleScript founders are dead, but
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neither do they work at Apple any more, and it was 10-12 years ago now),
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you find yourself debating what it was they actually intended to do.
Old AppleScripters never die, they just ignore application responses. ;)
Thanks,
has
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