--- 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 :-)

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