Re: A89: Clearing a string

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Clearing a string
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:03:20 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org

In a message dated 7/4/00 10:39:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
goodsell@bridgernet.com writes:

> Well, honestly I've never considered extra generated code since I'm used to
>  programming for PCs and not calculators. I would expect the generated code
>  to be identical, but that's probably a bad assumption. As for redundency, 
of
>  course it is redundant. I'm all for redundency when it makes the code more
>  clear. Isn't that practically the definition of "comment"? But if it 
affects
>  the code size on a platform where that matters then that's a different
>  story.

Comments are NOT included in executables!  They're left out from the 
compilation, because, after all, they don't actually _do_ anything.  What you 
could do is explain some optimized code with a comment, and thus get the 
efficient generated code along with readability.  But slowing down the code 
on purpose is generally very wasteful, whether for computer or calculator.

----
Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://jonah.ticalc.org

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Re: A89: Clearing a string

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