[Coco] OS9 vs MS Win

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Wed Feb 26 11:09:37 EST 2014


On Wednesday 26 February 2014 11:08:41 tim at franklinlabs.com did opine:

> On February 26, 2014 at 10:37 AM Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> 
wrote:
> > On 27/02/2014 1:20 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> > > With 8 gigs of RAM in the computer, I guess no one needs to care
> > > about the RAM footprint anymore.
> > 
> > 8GB isn't a lot these days. :(
> > 
> > And it's been more than a decade since desktop application programmers
> > gave two hoots about RAM usage. I still have to remind myself it's OK
> > to allocate variables that are more than a few bytes! Once I even
> > threw caution to the wind and malloc'd 64KB!!! ;)
> 
> "malloc"??? Yikes! Big no-no in C++. LMAO!

You mention C++, now go warsh yur mouth out with some of grandma's lye 
soap. ;-)

> > Regards,
> > 
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