Stack size

[Richard Gaskin]

FlexibleLearning wrote:

> Thank you Jacque... Forgot about that one. Had half-remembered it as a
> compatibility-only function, but we'll give it a try. We were getting a
> 'cannot find stack' error which actually meant 'cannot fully load this
> stack', as well as no graceful result that memory is running low; just a
> suddenly non-responsive stack. I think a bit of work is needed at the upper
> end of memory limits.

True, but it's not trivial.  IFAIK OS X provides no API for an app to 
know the amount of available memory; instead it's recommended that an 
app keep track of its allocations, which isn't possible in a tool like 
Rev since externals can come into play.

Personally, as much as I love storing data in stack files, with nearly a 
GB of data I'd look into another storage format.

Even just a plain text file can be traversed with reasonable efficiency 
if you can afford the up-front cost of indexing it, which allows you to 
use seek to read only what you need.

But SQLite may be an even better option, certainly less work than 
writing your own indexing scheme.

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