Re: A86: Compression Program
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Re: A86: Compression Program
oh, and in addition, it couldn't be put in an interrupt because there is
no guarantee that an interrupt will occur before the calc starts to
access the data. that's why i came up with my self-decompression of
programs. (i already tried the DoubleSpace-like idea but there is no way
to intercept calls to _findvar.
TGaArdvark wrote:
>
> > I was thinking it would be very cool to have a compression system like
> > double space and pklite and pkzip for the 86.
>
> Theoretically, it might be possible to, like DoubleSpace, compress
> the entire user RAM and have an interrupt to decompress variables
> as they are accessed. The VAT and the settings and RAM 1 etc.
> would remain intact, but all vat entries would point to the start of
> user mem. When a user variable is accessed, the variable
> is decpmpressed to the start of RAM 1. Ideas anyone? Ruminate.
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