Re: A85: Why even use libraries?

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Subject: Re: A85: Why even use libraries?
From: mikep@anet-dfw.com (Michael Pearce)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:21:14 GMT
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Does anyone know how large the code for using libraries is in Usgard?
i would be extrememly interested to know this.

-mike

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:02:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>Why not just use all of the routines you would call from some generic
>library, and put them at the end of your program like a subroutine?  It would
>allow you to modify the routine for whatever way you wanted it to do, and
>only waste space if two programs use the exact same routine.  This might
>happen fairly frequently, but with the amount of space on the calculator, you
>can only hold so many games, so even if libraries would save you 300 bytes,
>have you ever heard of a 300 byte game that was worth anything?
>

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