Thanks Dan... Nice one. Now I am wondering if there is any advantage in giving lots of memory to apps that are savvy to temporary memory (am puzzled as to how it can hurt - you mention a case). Of course, it is wise I expect to give lots where one is not sure how clever the app is...
One thing you can do, open "About this Computer" and monitor both the program memory usage and the System. Temporary memory shows up under System Memory. Try running the program and do some stuff, especially opening large documents. If the System Memory goes up appropriately and the Applications memory usage doesn't change then you are seeing a program using temporary memory. As indicated previously the Apps memory usage may go up to, it depends on the application. When I refer to the Apps memory usage changing I'm principally referring to the percentage of allocated memory, not the allocated memory. The allocated memory can change in some cases but only by a fairly small amount. I'm not sure what "memory" this is representing.
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