RE: Re: Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win3 2
Harring Figueiredo <[email protected]>
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--- Tor Lillqvist <[email protected]> wrote: > [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. > > --tml > > > To me, both descriptions are correct -- with one comment -- In Operating Systems concept, when we talk about Virtual memory and Physical memory at the same time, Martin's concept takes place -- When we talk about Virtual memory ONLY, Tor's definition is the one that is applied <MY 2 CENTS/> Harring. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com