Re: A89: Garbage Archiving

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Re: A89: Garbage Archiving


Hear, Hear!!  I hate this new 'feature' which DoorsOS has...  My 'high'
(really low) scores are nothing to brag about, and I don't really want to
keep other's higher scores on my calc anyway.  I agree w/ the
copy/run/delete mentality others also have.

If this is such a debatable issue, then I think different versions of
DoorsOS should be made to accomodate.

-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
ICQ: 13217756       IRC: Killer2        AIM: kilier2
http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_rayman/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dial" <wrath@calc.org>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Garbage Archiving

> No, you misread or I wasn't completely clear... DoorsOS unarchives the
> variable, meaning that at the end of execution it must be rearchived. I
> stated that I wanted to not unarchive but just copy the variable. The
> TI-OS does this. Instead of unarchive, you just copy into RAM, not
> removing it from the archive. Meaning Garbage Collection would occcur
> unless you were moving things around.
>
> h4X0r wrote:
>
> > DoorsOS II v0.9 does this and so did DoorsOS 1.00.  It wasn't until
DoorsOS
> > Beta 2 that this "feature" was inserted.  It would unarchive the
program,
> > run it, save whatever score, and rearchive it.  Same thing with the
> > libraries (which I think is useless because this just causes more
slowdown).
> > Anyways, I'm glad that this "feature" was removed :)
> >
> > --h4X0r
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Dial" <wrath@calc.org>
> > To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 10:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: A89: Garbage Archiving
> >
> > > Garbage Archiver rearranges the memory on the flash rom, and a flash
rom
> > > bit can only be flash X amount of times (I thought it was something
like
> > > 30,000 times but it is probably higher). So everytime you play the
game,
> > > you wear away at the flash rom bits. It isn't a terrible thing but
> > > unless you really need to move something on and off the flash rom, you
> > > really shouldn't. The fix to this is by keeping it in RAM.
> > >
> > > Side note: Why can't we just copy the variable, run it, and delete.
The
> > > OS does this, so why don't we?
> > >
> > > Cyong0@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's so bad about this garbage archiving thing.  My calc does it
> > almost
> > > > every time I run SF2 or big stuff like that.  How can I fix this?
> > > >
> > > > Please LMK
> > > >
> > > > Thanx!
> > > >
> > > > -Trailblazer
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott "_Wrath_" Dial
> > > wrath@calc.org
> > > ICQ#3608935
> > > TimeCity AI Guy II - www.timecity.org
> > > Member of TCPA - tcpa.calc.org
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