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  Cool Macworld Product: VectorDesigner
Subject:   Nice, but absolutely **voracious** with memory
Date:   2008-03-03 18:37:52
From:   amk1
Response to: Nice, but absolutely **voracious** with memory

I recently learned that realloc() on MacOS never rearranges memory, so if code allocates a very large region and then shrinks it down with realloc(), the unused space is still consumed. Maybe VectorDesigner is using realloc in this way, and maybe Apple has fixed the libc in 10.5.