OpenEuphoria

Re: Memory

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jan 02, 1999
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:13:06 -0500, Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> wrote:

>Ralf writes:
>> ANd I know it never tried virtual memory, for the simple fact that I
>> have 2 gb free.. I would notice it using 2 gb from my HD and
>> then removing it again..
>
>Under Windows, Euphoria is limited to the size of the
>Windows swap area on your disk (you can adjust this
>size, but don't bother). Euphoria can't use your
>entire free space on disk.
>
>Under pure DOS, Causeway seems to
>give up after using several megs
>of disk space. I'm not sure what the algorithm is there.
>
Rob:

Has Causeway changed? When I first got Euphoria 1.5,
I set up a sequence of 300,000,000 characters with no problem
(except for considerable delay while reading or writing
the disk, obviously).

Irv