Re: [NTLK] Freezing packages

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 10:53:20 PDT


On May 23, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:

> On 23-mei-04, at 10:33, Martin Joseph wrote:
>> I don't know either, but it still seems like you should be able to
>> freeze rom based packages.
>
> How? ROM stands for read only memory, so how can it be altered or
> adjusted?
> The fact that there's an option to freeze them is strange but the fact
> that nothing happens seems to support this.
The package itself is stored in ROM... But in order to RUN it needs to
use heap also. freezing could release the heap spaced used by the
running program...

marty

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