Memory Management in AmigaOS4.0 Explained

[JoannaK]

Uncharted: Ah.. this thread explains all those funny messages that suddenly appeared on MB... I was wonderhing how those people were so suddenly become interested on that site.  :-P

Yeah.. I don't think they (Hyperion) should be hunting new Buzz.Phrases for their OS.. They are allready way too late on fixing critical bugs and delivering the OS, so trying to implement this kind of 'high-tech' stuff only delays it further.

And please do note... word high-tech is on quotes in purpose.. This Slab-allocator (even though itself has certain adwantages over The Amiga way) will not be any miracle cure for underlying problems of their OS (and system in whole), it's just something Flashy they found up on net and decided that it would look cool enough to introduce on website in purpose on buying some time, before the few remaining user's loses their interest.

[JoannaK]

Amigaguy: Well. I was not thinking about memory protection(*) while I was writing that comment... There are a lot more pressing and critical problems they have not been able to solve in last three or so years. Memory protection won't be the key issue on determing the OS4 future..

(*) It's an  real *old* (we thought that a lot in those days as first Turbo cards with MMU:s appeared for A2000, so it must be at least 10 years old debate) and well known issue that one can't make decent memory protection without breaking Amiga Message passing system entirely (or slowing it down to grinding halt). So I didn't even expect them to be able solve that part of the puzzle on OS4..   :-)