Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Shuck 1.50

At 19:22 -0400 2001.09.21, John Gruber wrote:
>Bart Lateur <[email protected]> wrote on 9/22/01 at 1:12a:
>
>> I wouldn't want to waste too much memory on a help file reader [...]
>
>You could just lower the memory partition in the Finder, right?
>
>If the default memory partition is set too high for the taste of a
>savvy user, it's trivial to lower it.
>
>If the the default memory partition is set too low, and a
>not-so-savvy user is behind the wheel, they run out of memory and
>wonder what happened.
>
>I think it's better to err on the side of too high, especially in
>these days of $30 256 MB chips.

In the past I certainly agreed with Bart, but John has a point.

In any event, Shuck in 1.1 or whatever corrupts my system heap if it runs
out of memory, so that is even more reason to err on the side of higher
memory allocations.  :-)

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