Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #682 - 13 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #682 - 13 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #682 - 13 msgs
- From: Simon Stapleton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 14:24:49 +0100 (BST)
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From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: memory and launching
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Just a quick thought... if OSX allows concurrent startup of
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apps, and if those apps are dynamically allocated RAM, would
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starting up two massive apps be a bad idea at the same time?
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Would it be possible that the apps, if you ended up running off
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of virtual memory, would possess chunks of data spread so wide
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across the HD that running the apps would be unbearable?
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Just a thought. If I'm wrong, feel free to slap me with a tuna.
Perfectly valid thought. Hence allocWithZone:, which, in theory, allocates blocks in a specific area and reduces paging loads, among other things. how effective it is, I'm not entirely sure, but I tend to do it anyway (call me anal and paranoid, but...)
Mind you, if your app(s) are thrashing VM, buy more ram![1]
Simon
[1] Semi-facetious comment. Ram is cheap. Time isn't.
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