Default heap size

[Alastair Reid]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:37, Sven Panne wrote:
> Could we make the default heap size a little bit bigger? On current PC
> systems with 0.5GB - 1GB RAM 250kB seems to be a bit tiny, and I can't even
> load some OpenGL examples without using -hXYZ on the commandline. Maybe
> 400kB or even 0.5MB? I understand that Hugs is targeted at low-end systems,
> but even my mobile phone could handle a few MBs...

Detail: I think the default heap size is 2Mb not 250kB.  (The heap size is 
measured in number of 'cells' which are 8 bytes each on 32-bit machines.)

That said, doubling its size every 18 months seems entirely reasonable and I 
don't think we've changed it for about 2 years.

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Alastair