Robert P. wrote on Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:18:13 +1200:

>BTW, handle memory has no advantage over pointer memory in OS X. 
>Physical memory does not get fragmented and is never compacted. 

So it seems this 'physical' memory is really all virtial address
space, ie not really physical.  True physical addresses would be
known only to some 'MMU'.

>Handle blocks are therefore fixed, just like pointer blocks. They 
>are never moved by an allocation request. (Never?  Well hardly ever: 
>ResizeHandle is the exception.)

So it seems either this is an unnecessary exception or 'physical'
memory is *not* 'virtual' after all.

What gives?

Cheers

Laurent S