Memory usage

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jul 4 18:22:13 EDT 2013


I'm not sure how it's done exactly.  Mark Waddingham mentioned it to me at the last conference, he just said it was no longer possible to read the code from memory.  

I didn't even ask what version but I got the impression it was a recent change.  

Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> BTW, RR recently removed the ability to see scripts in a memory dump.
>:)
>
>Which version?
>
>The implications are interesting:  does it make things faster or
>slower?
>
>If they're only saving a tokenized form of the script that would seem 
>likely to make things faster, as it would obviate some of the steps 
>needed for execution.
>
>But if they're merely encrypting the scripts at runtime, that would of 
>course slow things down.
>
>If the former, how much more could be done to further approach true 
>machine-code speeds?
>
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