Digital BW, The Print

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 20:09 America/New_York, Martin Wesley wrote:

> Adobe's insistence on using a separate swap file in
> addition to the Windows page file results in sub par memory 
> performance.

I would guess that the main reason it was done this way was because 
prior to Mac OSX, the mac didn't have paging memory so Adobe needed 
their own memory management system. In order to keep the code base 
easier to maintain they just ported the whole system to Windows. Now 
that PS 8 will be strictly OSX from what I hear, maybe their swap file 
won't be needed (or at least they can change the way it works).

Jim