Guus Bosman

Yesterday afternoon I got the basic technology right, now I'm working on a policy. The goal of the exercise is: implement memory compaction. It's not extremely specific though about what is considered memory compaction, so I have to find a good policy myself. I'm now thinking about this: fetch a hole (start with first one, lowest in memory). If this is imediately followed by a process, this process should be moved (slided down), and the current hole size = hole size - proc. size. If the hole is not followed by a process (for example next to the BIOS or shadowed ROM area), see if the next thing it's followed by it a hole, and copy it (when it fits) -- no sliding thus. If copied: hole size = hole size - proc size, else hole++.

Alex & I just saw Bridget Jones Diary, a wonderful romantic and funny movie. Really very nice, highly recommendable. Guusbosman.nl has been unreachable for a few hours (from 17:00 to 23:15) -- security too tight ;)

Jerry and Marjolein were here tonight, it was really nice. Burned the rice. Played again Carcassone. The ex-king of Bulgaria will have 120 of the 240 representatives in parlement. It's good he doesn't have a complete majority, more healthy to rule together with another party I think. At work I made Makefiles again, one of them for compiling the JSP part.

We just came back from Almere, played a lot of games. I learned Union Pacific (a bit boring) and 2 children games: Isis & Osiris and De Beer Is Los. This last one is really nice :) Oh, I also played Atilla; it was nice but I think it's unnecessary complicated. Tomorrow evening we'll see Tibor & Janneke; hope to explain them Carcassone. When we went home it was pouring with rain; took a bus therefore. By the way, if you ever go to Almere, be sure to know which trainstop is yours :)