RE: area tree questions

2003-10-11 Thread Victor Mote
J.Pietschmann wrote: Victor Mote wrote: Since this is information that is useful only during layout, perhaps this change was made to make the Area Tree more lean (i.e. use less memory)? IIRC it was made to allow areas GC'd early. In the maintenance branch, if something keeps a

area tree questions

2003-10-10 Thread Victor Mote
I think Joerg already said this, but it appears that the main challenge to completing a port of the maintenance branch layout to the trunk will be a reconciliation of the differences between the two area trees. Since we don't have a fully-functional layout system using either of the two models, I

RE: area tree questions

2003-10-10 Thread Victor Mote
Please disregard my previous message under this thread. After working on this a bit more, I think I just need to do more homework here. Victor Mote

Re: area tree questions

2003-10-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
Victor Mote wrote: Since this is information that is useful only during layout, perhaps this change was made to make the Area Tree more lean (i.e. use less memory)? IIRC it was made to allow areas GC'd early. In the maintenance branch, if something keeps a reference to an area, like tables did,