on 07/24/2001 02:11 PM, Chris Nandor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [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.
Chris: why not try min:8 max:16 for the next iteration, and put a note in
the readme/changelog/versionhistory/whichever to try running the usual
without updating the memory settings, and to report back if any problems
crop up.
I'll admit I don't think too much in terms of minimum being on a 7600/132
with around 216MB of RAM... :) Having those modules be dynamic might help
though. I dunno either. :)
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