Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5
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Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Mark Cartwright wrote:
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> > From: Andy Selle <aselle@earth.mat.net>
> > To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> > Subject: Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5
> > Date: Saturday, August 31, 1996 8:46 AM
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> > On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Digital Dreamer wrote:
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> > > These things have no place in the zshell kernel. They should be
> > > implemented in the program itself. Otherwise zshell quickly becomes a
> > > 6e12k pile of bloat.
> > >
> > > dreamer
> > >
> > Absolutely not. What I would like to see is authors releasing not only
> > the source to their routines, but a library that Zshell can use. For
> > example, Jingyang Xu could release NASR as a library and all the games
> > that could use it wouldn't need to include it in there programs. So if I
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> > have his Asteroids and my Spacewar both which use NASR we could access
> > the library. and use 50% of the mem that the routines (NASR) would use
> > ormally.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
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> Yes, but for people with not a lot of ZShell prorgams on their calc it is
> not very efficient. Your are only going to see a big benefit from this
> when you have like 4 programs using NASR, even then you are giong to have
> unused libraries.
>
> mark
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That is why I recommend to all authors to release two versions of their
programs: a statically linked vers that works with 4.0 and a dynamically
linked vers that works with 4.5 and libraries. That way the user can
choose which way is the most efficient for their needs.
-Andy
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