Hi, FtrPtrNew() should get you more then 184k, it's slower because the memory resists in the storage ram.
... Collin On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:31:57 -0500 Luc Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Markus Dresch a �crit : > > > most current palm devices have more than 1MB of heap mem - the > > tungsten c has 12MB!!! > > however, the tungsten t and t2 only have 700 KB - no CaSTaway > > anytime soon... :o/ > > and sony's always got heaps of heap! > > > > markus dresch (www.palmside.com) > > (beta testers: www.palmside.com/dal) > > But what's the biggest chunk you can allocate? AFAIK, MemGluePtrNew in > SDK 5 R3 can allocate a non-movable chunk of up to 184Kb, while > MemHandleNew is limited to 64Kb. > > > -- > Luc Le Blanc > > > > "Luc Le Blanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > My application performs graph computations. It could handle up to > > > the Palm OS-permitted 64K records if it could allocate bigger > > > arrays in heap. Alas, even with tight data structures and the use > > > of MemGluePtrNew(184Kb limit), it cannot process more than 6000 > > > records. With the advent of Palm OS 5 (and soon 6) PDAs with more > > > memory and faster CPUs, can we expect (or hope) to get more heap > > > space and higher chunk limits? And could this be available for OS > > > 3-4 applications running in emulation mode? > > -- PalmOS @ MUlliNER.ORG Collin R. Mulliner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: www.mulliner.org/palm -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
