Thanks, Pierre, but I don't think that's quite what I'm after. My
backup program won't be something that will run consistently for
weeks at a time. I'm talking about recursion as in calling the same
handler/function from within itself. I'm guessing there could be
issues with this if the folder to back up has a large directory
structure, as in many sub folders and files.
On Aug 3, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
Hi,
In about recursive tasks, the "send message in x seconds" can
efficiently be replaced by an "on idle" message if the soft has to
work for days, weeks or months. Because the idle message is only
send when no one thread is running, it's an helpfull way to avoid
mrmory troubles. I used this design years ago under Hypercard 2.35
and 2.41 with very good results.
Le 3 août 05 à 19:59, Chris Sheffield a écrit :
I know recursion has been discussed in the past, and I'm wondering
if anyone has ever run into any limits (i.e. memory problems) with
recursion in Rev. I am working on a little backup utility for my
own use, and I'm wondering what would happen if I decided to back
up my entire hard drive? Would Rev choke on that? I realize it
could potentially take hours. Would I start getting out of memory
errors? The utility uses a directory walking function to create a
list of all sub folders and files to be backed up.
Anyone have some detailed results with this type of thing?
Thanks,
Chris
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