You're talking about cheese. I'm telling Mom. Nyah.
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On September 10, 2021 8:42:48 AM Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:15 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
On 2021-09-10 14:06, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> The windows heap is much more prudent than UNIXy counterparts it would
> seem - where UNIX heaps will happily leave plenty of free space (which
> the heaps know about and thus can re-use), Windows appears to avoid
> that like the plague (which I'm sure is the case for lots of
> historical reasons and backwards compatibility). [ To give a very
> rough analogy, the map of used space in a heap on windows is like a
> block of cheddar; whereas on UNIXy systems it will be like a block of
> edam ].
I of course meant 'Swiss', not 'Edam'!
Thanks for the clarification. I feel like I have a decent understanding of
cheeses, but I couldn’t figure out how cheddar and edam were different in
this analogy :-)
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Trevor DeVore
ScreenSteps
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