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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: 25 Sep 2001 19:12:09 -0700
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:<%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com>...
> By my math, that's probably going to be using at least 800MB. Do you actually
> have that much RAM in your system? It would have to be one kick'n system to have
> nearly a gig of contiguous free RAM available on the heap...


What an extraordinarily peculiar comment :-)

We are talking about contiguous *virtual* memory, not
physical memory. This is 2001, not 1965.