Re: Memory fragmentation?
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Re: Memory fragmentation?
No, the memory is NOT fragmented, it is all adjusted at run-time. With
only 32k ram, it doesn't take too long. This is also why doing
operations such as delete and resize in ZShell / other ASM is such a
pain.
Jim Reardon
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On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 02:44:29 GMT Zackary Tippett <zlt@EARTHLINK.NET>
writes:
>It probably does, just like in a PC. That is why they have programs
>such as MagnaRam and SoftRam for defragmenting, as well as compressing
>memory. I doubt that it is noticable that memory is fragmented since
>things are read from memory several times faster than disk.
>
>On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 00:18:48 -0700, Bert Kuo <bertk@BLARG.NET> wrote:
>
>>Ok, I was just wondering... Does memory usage on the TI-8x caculators
>ever
>>become fragmented, like how a hard drive would? Like, if I had 300
>bytes
>>free, then wrote programs A,B, and C, each 100 bytes in length. Then
>i
>>deleted programs A and C, and wrote a 200 byte program, D. Would
>this
>>program D span two separate blocks of memory? if it doesn't, why
>not, andif
>>it is a normal/routine occurence, how does the calculator know where
>to read
>>to next?
>>
>>Bert Kuo
>>(bertk@blarg.net)
>
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