Re: A83: Re: Ion 1.4 vs Ion 1.6
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Re: A83: Re: Ion 1.4 vs Ion 1.6
Oddly enough ICE is even slower!
>From: "Dan Englender" <dan@calc.org>
>Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
>To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>Subject: A83: Re: Ion 1.4 vs Ion 1.6
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 00:41:02 -0500
>
>
>It's not broken, a new loader system was implemented. The old loader just
>moved everything forward in memory and then had to manually go through the
>VAT and fix all the pointers to variables (and if I remember correctly, it
>didn't fix any pointers in the non-program symbol table, so you'd have some
>troubles trying to alter variables stored in that table). The new loader
>uses InsertMem and DelMem so that all the TIOS stuff is done "the right
>way"
>(meaning things like system input have a higher chance of working), and
>updated the VAT tables automatically, meaning that Ion would be quite
>smaller and also that you could correctly access non-program symbol table
>entries. It's the same type of loader that MirageOS uses (I don't know
>about TSE and the other shells) and I think that it's worth the extra small
>amount of time that programs take to load.
>
>Oh, I almost forgot, because the new loader (with Insertmem) updates all
>the
>TIOS memory pointers (particularly tempMem) it lets the IonDetect routine
>have a nice place to copy archived external files to RAM so they can be
>read
>as normal by programs.
>
>It's late, sorry for the obfuscation,
>-Dan Englender
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "D Weiss" <dwedit@hotmail.com>
>To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 11:33 PM
>Subject: A83: Ion 1.4 vs Ion 1.6
>
>
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed that Ion 1.4 is extremely fast at loading
>programs,
> > but ION 1.6 takes forever? Are there any advantages of ION 1.6 over
>1.4?
> >
> > And how did this part of ION get broken?
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