On 02 May 2001 19:35:30 EDT, Katherine Richmond wrote:
> RuntimeBuilder does work now.
That's good to hear.
> I
>gave both MacPerl and RunTimeBuilder.pm 8 MB ram. Probably could go lower, but
>I'm just thrilled that it works!
A droplet doesn't need much memory. All it does, it get a list of the
dropped files, launch MacPerl, give it a script to run (its script
code), and this file list. All in all a neat trick. So, the amount of
memory you need depends on the amount of files you want to drop at a
time, and not much more. So a relatively tine amount of memory for it is
enough.
MacPerl, OTOH, is doing all the hard work, and can use all the spare
memory that you can throw at it (without starving the Finder). So, half
a MB for the droplet and 15.5 MB for MacPerl, that looks like a better
ratio to me.
--
Bart.
