dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (09/08/89)
In article <1989Sep6.180417.26622@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes: >[...] > Also, I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of blocks of >memory that can be allocated through the memory manager? Could I, for instance, >allocate 10000 100 byte blocks? (assuming I had 10000*100=1meg memory) Not sure if you can have that many handles, but you don't *want* to--some memory manager operations would get very slow. (Plus, there is currently a 20-byte overhead for each handle you allocate, so you'd be wasting about 20% of the memory by allocating truckloads of 100-byte blocks.) -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.