Normal for a HLA program?

Hi all,

Apologies if this starts a flame-thread but my only Yahoo! account is
having login problems, so I'm unable to access AoA programming group.

I've been toying with HLA recently and I coded together a small
one-page program to keep a running total of signed integer input
values. It declares and uses three "int32" variables though I could
have used registers instead.

But the curious thing is, I noticed that the executable when running,
consumes approx. 32.6 Mb of virtual memory and about 1.6 Mb of physical
memory though the latter drops down to a few hundred Kbs after a while.
Is this normal/intended or is something wrong with this particular HLA
program/setup?

Even though virtual memory is "virtual" still 32 Megabytes seems a bit
much for a trivial demo. A comparable C version uses 160 Kb virtual and
180 Kb of physical memory. I understand that the HLA standard library
employs a runtime SEH system but even so, 32 Megabytes... ?

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks and sorry again for any flame wars.

.

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