Re: A86: Re: Large ASM

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Large ASM
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:03:54 -0600
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Yeah.  It's called bloat.  Or use Lite86, the decompression code is, what,
about 25 bytes?  And that little bit of space in every program is more than
made up for by the ease of use of not having to load a separate program.  If
you only have one thing on your calc, do you want to have to load a library?
That is why the 86 is so great.  On the 82/83/85, where you write code for a
specific shell, then of course, it makes sense to have a decompression (and
possibly compression) routine built into the shell.  But the problem with
those calcs is no scratch space (what a pity).  On the 86, everything is
great the way it is.  Go back and read the assembly-86 archives for
September 1997.

> Whoa, chill out Matt!
> How about a compression library :`)
> Actually, that might actually work.
> Just something that decompresses them to wherever the programmer wants
them
> at.

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