Memory question, old MC versions

[Ray Horsley]

I've found that "delete stack myStackPath" purgees the stack from memory.
Don't do this on a subStack or you'll really delete it forever.  Use this
just for an external 'stack file' which has been referred to.  (All you have
to do is refer to another stack file and MC loads into memory.)  Use "delete
stack myStackPath" and it removes it from memory, but it doesn't delete the
file from disk.  (To do this you would use "delete file myStackPath".)

This works for me.


Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software


on 4/8/03 3:45 PM, Karl Becker at karl at karlbecker.com wrote:

> I made a word processor quite awhile ago using New Tricks and it uses
> 15,000K of RAM on a 68K machine.  I have one idea why its using a lot
> of memory - it reads the stack name property of every stack in a
> directory, and it's probably loading about 5 to 8 stacks just to read
> the title of the stack.  It doesn't actually toplevel any of those
> stacks, but it must have to load them if it's reading their stack names
> (not their file name, but actual stack name).
> 
> Another fun fact: this is using the 2.3.x version of MetaCard
> (whichever was the last to support 68k).
> 
> The program only reads in the text file, sets the htmlText of a field
> to the html file it's opened (very basic html files, simply exported
> htmlText that the user typed in).
> 
> It's really bugging my client, where it takes about 3 minutes and 30
> seconds to open a 360K text file using my program.  I don't really have
> any other comments on it, except that it would be nice if there's some
> obvious way to cut back on memory that my word processor (or MetaCard
> itself) uses.
> 
> Karl
> 
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