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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald J Kimball) wrote:
> Is there any possibility of reducing the memory requirements of MacPerl?
> Considering that I would generally like to have at least an editor open at
> the same time, and possibility a browser or a mail reader or other programs
> at the same time, 20MB is a hell of a lot of memory for MacPerl to require.
> (Not holding out much hope... :)
Well, it won't be that high.
There are several issues. One is that right now all the ext/ and
macos/bundled_ext/ modules are static, not dynamic. So they are there
whether you ask for them or not. The other issue is that I don't know
that, even with dynamic loading on everything, how much memory to have.
Anyway, the bottom line is I would like to set the recommended RAM at a
higher number (so people can use the standard modules without hitting
the ceiling), and the minimum at a number as low as possible. It is not
at all uncommon for a Perl program on Unix to hit 10-15MB pretty fast,
and the same goes with Mac OS. So maybe a recommended of 15 or 20MB is
reasonable, with a minimum of like 6 or 8MB.
I dunno.
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