On 21 Jan 2005 at 23:00, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 05.1.21 / 06:10 PM wrote: > >The programmers of OS X, you mean -- Finale knows nothing about > >virtual memory, which is entirely handled by the operating system's > >virtual memory subsystem. > > Well, Finale might or might not, we won't know. . . .
Yes, we *do* know. Modern operating systems have virtual memory subsystems built in at the lowest level of the OS. > . . . Some apps does set vm > amount on launch. Most of the DSP application does that. But you > might be right. Finale doesn't require real-time disk I/O so > pre-caching might not be happening. Mac users are probably confused about virtual memory because of the way it was bolted onto Mac OS as an extension that often conflicted with applications. You're now living in a completely different world, one where the apps don't know anything about managing system memory at all. They only know about their own memory requirements. Keep in mind that under OS X you don't have to set the amount of memory to be allocated to an application (as was the case with Mac OS). This is a direct indication of the fact that memory management is now wholly owned by the operating system itself. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
