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Re: Windows8

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Windows8
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Date 2012-11-19 14:52 -0800
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Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> writes:
>> As Paul points out, in some programs buffers may be used in multiple
>> places in a large program.
> And I would call that living dangerously by choice.  Maybe.  Depends
> on the details which I don't see.

What alternative are you proposing?  If the data is needed in multiple
places, you either have to share it, or copy it all over the place,
causing program slowdown and memory bloat.  

> If one chooses to live dangerously then meticulous care
> is probably then a requirement and is perhaps more prone to error.

That is also a route not to travel.  If the pattern of allocation is
complicated enough that you start wanting a computer to keep track of
it, then why not do exactly that, and let the computer keep track of it
so you don't have to?  Use the Force, Luke.  The power of garbage
collection is within you. ;-)

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Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-02 08:41 -0700
  Re: Windows8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-11-02 11:12 -0700
  Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-06 09:05 -0800
    Re: Windows8 Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-12 07:10 -0800
      Re: Windows8 stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-11-12 17:27 +0000
    Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-21 17:48 -0800
  Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-07 20:44 -0800
  Re: Windows8 Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-12 07:15 -0800
    Re: Windows8 Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 07:59 -0800
    Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-12 07:55 -1000
      Re: Windows8 "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-14 20:04 +1100
        Re: Windows8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-14 17:01 +0000
          Re: Windows8 "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-18 11:14 +1100
            Re: Windows8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-19 14:25 +0000
              Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-19 08:09 -1000
                Re: Windows8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-20 09:55 +0000
                Re: Windows8 mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-11-25 10:56 +0200
                Re: Windows8 Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-25 16:46 +0100
            Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 16:21 -0500
              Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 13:46 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 17:05 -0500
                Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-19 12:14 -1000
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 14:30 -0800
                Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-19 12:53 -1000
                Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 17:44 -0500
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 14:52 -0800
                GC (was Re: Windows8) Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 11:44 -0500
                Re: GC Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-26 11:44 -0800
                Re: GC Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 06:35 -0500
                Re: GC Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-29 11:58 -0800
                Re: GC albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-11-30 01:46 +0000
                Re: GC Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-29 21:14 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 14:42 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 17:56 -0500
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 15:14 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 18:45 -0500
                Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-19 14:18 -1000
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 16:18 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 19:01 -0500
                Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-19 12:58 -1000
                Re: Windows8 Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-20 02:23 +0100
                Re: Windows8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-20 10:48 +0000
                Re: Windows8 Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-20 07:56 -0800
                Re: Windows8 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-21 15:03 +0000
                Re: Windows8 Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-23 05:58 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 02:13 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-20 08:57 -0800
                Re: Windows8 "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2012-11-20 16:56 -0500
                Re: Windows8 mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-11-25 11:20 +0200
    Re: Windows8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-14 16:36 -0500
      Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-14 12:12 -1000
        Re: Windows8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-14 17:46 -0500
          Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-14 13:12 -1000
            Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-14 18:12 -0800
            Re: Windows8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 13:55 -0500
              Re: Windows8 RR <freedomspyder@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 16:03 -0800
                Re: Windows8 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 21:54 -0500
                Re: Windows8 RR <freedomspyder@gmail.com> - 2012-11-15 19:26 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-15 19:27 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-16 17:45 +0100
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-16 09:10 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-16 22:34 +0100
                Re: Windows8 Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2012-11-16 18:06 +0000
                Re: Windows8 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-16 11:09 -0800
                Re: Windows8 Spam@ControlQ.com - 2012-11-16 15:18 -0500
        Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-15 00:19 -0800
          Re: Windows8 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-14 22:55 -1000
          Re: Windows8 albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-11-15 12:20 +0000
            Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-15 08:32 -0800
            Re: Windows8 kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2012-11-16 04:51 -0600
              Re: Windows8 stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-11-16 13:46 +0000
              Re: Windows8 visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-16 08:12 -0800
  Re: Windows8 the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 00:16 -0800

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