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OCR: PROGR AMMINGSUGGESTIONS FORIMPROVEDOPTIMIZATION Following are a few suggestions for programmers who want to make their applications work as effectively as possible wit@ptiMem. Ir general, just follow the Inside MacintoshR and other AppleR guidelines and everything should work well In particular Test with heap scrambling. Any code written for the Macintosh must be exercised with debugger that causes memory to be moved and purged whenever it IS allowed to op so There are some very subtle ways that your code might be tricked into using pointer to memory that could have mov ed Some times the symptoms of these bugs only occur randomly, but with OptiMization putting the squeeze on memory, they may occur more often Only allocate the amount of memory you really need and wait until you really need ...