RE: Re: Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win3 2

Tor Lillqvist <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:13:48 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
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[email protected] writes:
 > Surely that is because VM (Virtual Memory, which to my understanding is hard
 > disk space used as memory - i.e. an overflow for those with insufficient RAM
 > memory)

To me, "virtual memory" means the size the allocated pages of virtual
address space of a process. Some of the pages might be paged out to
disk, the rest is in RAM.

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