Charles wrote:

> What brings me to post this (unrelated to the original question)
> side topic is: can those of you with experience on other platforms
> tell me whether this is an inevitable consequence of virtual memory,
> or just some idiotic thing that Microsoft, in their infinitessimal
> wisdom didn't foresee?

Some of it depends on which runtime libraries the application is using, which
compiler, etc.


But for Windows, consider this: They are the same people who originally hyped
NTFS as no ever needing a defragmenter.

They a few years later they hyped the fact that NT 5.0 was going to include the
NTFS defragmenting technology developed by an independent company.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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