[Coco] OS9 vs MS Win

[tim at franklinlabs.com]

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!

>
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