RE: LZ: my 2 frozen cents on USGARD

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Subject: RE: LZ: my 2 frozen cents on USGARD
From: Sam Davies <sdavies@unix.trilogy.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:43:14 -0400
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On Friday, June 27, 1997 3:13 PM, Keith Burzinski[SMTP:tsk3000@prodigy.net] wrote:
> MUCH earlier on (before I even tried it), I had just looked over the
> orginal 85b in a HEX editor.  (I wanted to find some ROM info...  ;) 
> anyway, what I found was a series of addrs preceded by "C3"s... 
> indicating one thing:
> JUMP TABLES!!!
> Do you all know how size-inefficient that is???  VERY!!!  yeah, it is
> _faster_, but MUCH larger!  Especially with all the new (44?) ROM calls
> they added.  HA!


Well, our jump tables only take up about 40 "extra" bytes, and some of that would be taken up in the code to read from a table of WORD addresses and jump to the correct one... It's really not very much extra...
	Sam
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Sam Davies <sdavies@mail.trilogy.net>