Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:3290 From: agserm AT netwizards DOT net (Ansel Sermersheim) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Error messages and warnings... Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 04:02:36 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4m4369$htj@news.wco.com> References: Reply-To: agserm AT netwizards DOT net NNTP-Posting-Host: dial67.netwizards.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: >On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Orlando Andico wrote: >> > Only if by ``space'' you mean disk space. If you mean the RAM, then the >> > size of the program is not important, because the DPMI host will swap the >> > editor (or a part thereof) out to make enough space for the compiler. >> >> Actually I meant both... don't tell me that Emacs with its bloated binary >> consumes less space than Jed... of course Jed can be a memory hog too >> since it's a DJGPP-compiled program. But (unless I'm way off, correct me >> if I'm wrong) a smaller binary means that much less memory consumed. >> Which then translates to more memory for the compiler. >Wrong. When you invoke the compiler from within Jed or Emacs, the DPMI >server (Windows, CWSDPMI or anything else) will swap out the editor to >disk to make space for the compiler. So except for the swap itself, the >compiler will have the same amount of memory under both editors. I may be completely Bass-Ackwards, but I thought I read somewhere in the docs that for performance reasons, the data is not paged out of memory, but is marked as pageable so if the spawned proccess actually needs that much memory, it can get it. Am I right? --- This message may not be transmitted over any network owned directly or indirectly by Microsoft without a $5000 royalty. Transmission of this message on such a network implies acceptance of these terms. Subsequent messages are to be individually licensed.