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   Marco van de Voort to VBDis   
   Re: FPC Questions   
   27 Sep 04 00:01:12   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-09-26, VBDis  wrote:   
   >   
   > Writing a stable application is possible, based on minimum memory usage. A   
   > well performing application at best can monitor the time required to   
   > perform certain operations, and adjust its memory usage accordingly. Then   
   > it's up to you to decide how much memory will be given dynamically to the   
   > various operations and related buffers, whenever the performance goes up   
   > or down. As you can see, this is an issue of every specific application,   
   > not of some general memory management or static memory limits.   
      
   When I was a sys admin I used to hate such programs that try to be "smart".   
   During its lifetime there are always "runaway" situations.   
      
   IMHO the best solution is to put the burden on the user. Commandline/ini   
   file setting how much kb to use.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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