Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents

[Michael Sokolov]

It wasn't in my plans to get involved in this thread, but let me just add my
$0.02.

Bela Lubkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> For my purposes, running on a working Unix system, caching in core
> *becomes* caching on disk, if I run low on memory.  It gets pushed out
> to swap.  I trust the kernel to handle this about as efficiently as Lynx
> would have, doing its own on-disk cache; except that, by allowing the
> kernel to do it, I get to take advantage of the usually-ample RAM, so
> that in practice it rarely goes out to disk.

Actually all current versions of Lynx for MS OSes use DPMI, either directly
(DJGPP) or via the Win32 obfuscation layer (Win32), and therefore have virtual
memory available to them too. (The DPMI spec clearly says this in the Virtual
DOS Environments section. A DPMI host may choose not to perform this aspect of
virtualization, but a UNIX user may choose not to have swap either.)

[The above doesn't imply that I stand for or against any particular caching
scheme. As I have said above, it wasn't in my plans to get involved in this
thread at all.]

Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
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