Re: Memory limitation

Marco van de Voort wrote:
On 2006-10-26, Rob Kennedy <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This requires that you stay away from pointer arithmetic on signed integers. If you want to use /3GB you should also use fastmm and enable the correct switches (see usage section of readme file).

Of course, avoiding signed pointer arithmetic and using FastMM are good ideas even if you don't need 3 GB of address space.

Why? I tried FastMM in two projects, and both slowed down significantly.

Be wary to change to fastmm if your apps might have (inadvertedly) been
tuned to the old memmgr.

OK, OK. Let me rephrase: _Considering_ FastMM is a good idea. It doesn't suddenly speed up every program, but it helps some.

Besides, it's more than just a memory manager. It helps find leaks and trace improper freeing. As I understand it, when used as the IDE's memory manager, it also fixes some of Delphi's bugs.

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Rob
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