Compacting stacks and todays' newbie question
Rob Cozens
rcozens at pon.net
Wed Apr 17 12:19:01 EDT 2002
>in HC when you delete cards etc, you had to compact a stack, I take it this
>is not the case with Rev?
Hi Michael,
You are correct. In HyperCard, only a portion of a stack (the
current card?) is loaded in RAM at any one time...thus the constant
updating to disk & the need to occasionally "compact" (basically
write a fresh, non-fragmented copy of) a stack. The MetaCard engine
loads the entire stack in RAM when it is opened, and writes a fresh
copy out when it is saved; thus compacting is not required.
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Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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