[MACTCL] Re: memory & sockets

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 18:54 +0200 on 29/8/01, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

>  > There are problems with
>  > stderr and the Wish console ...
>
>That problem "solved". Perhaps it could be documented somewhere.

as I mentioned, that would probably be best achieved by a minmal case 
in a bugreport on sourceforge (hint, hint :-))

>  > tclMacAlloc.c tries to make sure that there is at least TOOLBOX_SPACE
>>  (currently 512K) of heap space free, it would be good if your code
>>  could take similar precautions e.g. by implementing a similar
>>  strategy to what is done in tclMacAlloc.c (allocate and lock a
>>  purgeable handle of e.g. size 512K, then try to allocate memory the
>>  way you do already, then unlock the handle, next time around check if
>>  the handle has been purged, if yes reallocate it)
>
>Seems complicated.

it's not that bad, just follow the idea laid out in tclMacAlloc.c, 
you should just be able to copy/paste most of that code. This is a 
pretty tradtional MacOS technique that is used in a lot of frameworks 
like powerplant, macapp etc

>We cannot judge GUSI from its status several years ago. From its docs,
>there are a lot of changes; two updates this summer. And this guy, Matthias,
>refers to bug fixes with MacPerl bug numbers, so it gets some maintanence.

AFAIK, Matthias now works for Apple in the Speech group FWIW

Cheers,

Daniel
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