Re: GS/OS cache

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

>Shall we set the GS/OS cache as big as possible, or just reasanable size
>like 32/64/128K?

>Somebody explains that we should always set to the largest size possible
>(eg 2MB) since GS/OS will release the memory if required. Any comments?

At first, it seems like one should set the maximum size (nothing to lose, eh?)

But that's not generally a good idea because...

If your cache if any bigger than, say, 64K, chances are the oldest data in the
cache is something you've finished working with quite a while ago. So would you
rather keep some old data in the cache, or have your program launcher stand by
dormant in memory ready for when you quit back to it?

One of them is going to go if you're low on memory (maybe both). I choose to
have ProSel 16 reload from memory.

But no matter what you set, your computer will still do the same things, just
maybe a little less efficiently. Doesn't matter too much...
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