Re: A86: New Shell/Differences between ROM versions

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: New Shell/Differences between ROM versions
From: rabidcow@juno.com
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:11:13 -0700
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

all rom calls are slow.  it's always a tradeoff between size and speed. 
(and in some cases, whether or not you want to bother writing & debugging
the code)
the main issue is, is it slow enough to make a difference?

-josh

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:48:27 -0600 "Brent Schneider" <brent@calc.org>
writes:
>
>But, _FindAlphaDn and _FindAlphaUp are REALLY slow. Chicane did some 
>kind of
>research on it, and he found out it was just incredibly slow. So, if 
>you are
>going to make a big nice shell, search the VAT. It's big, but it's 
>super
>fast.
>
>> to find a list of prgm and string vars, repeatedly call _FindAlphaDn 
>(or
>> up), starting with the name 1,0 (i think; 1 being the length byte) 
>and
>> check the type for each var you find, adding only the ones you 
>want.

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