--- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I feel like I'm getting myself deeper and deeper > with > >all the claims I'm making, but I'll take my chances > >(*deep breath*).... > >Since the whole app reside in the dynamic heap > >(globals apart) it would mean that one would have > more > >room more for a larger app (although in practice > it's > >probably insignificant). > >If I'm not mistaken, the app's stack is also in > this > >heap (which of course includes the function calls), > so > >this would also leave more room for the stack. > > The application lives in the storage heap. It > allocates two chunks of > memory on the dynamic heap at startup -- a chunk for > all the global > variables, and a chunk for the program stack. Those > are live and unmoving > for the life of the program, so making these > allocations too large can > limit your apps abilities to allocate memory while > its running.
Thanks for that clarification Ben :-) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
