Re: A83: Re: ROMcall reference


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Re: A83: Re: ROMcall reference




Textpad loads it instantly and has no slowdown in editing!

(I use textpad for the speed, syntax highlighting and tools!)


>From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
>Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
>To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>Subject: A83: Re: ROMcall reference
>Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:05:35 -0700
>
>
>For z80 assembly source code, Assembly Studio 8x version 4 works quite 
>well.
>For anything web related, HomeSite can't be beat.  For C/C++, I like
>C++Builder's editor, although the one that comes with TIGCC is nice for a
>free editor.
>
>If you have really large files, say 5mb of text, then finding an editor to
>work with that effectively will be difficult.  I ran some tests on various
>editors I have on my system by opening a 5mb text file:
>
>Assembly Studio 8x -- didn't wait for it to load (> 1 min)
>C++Builder -- opened almost immediately, no slowdown in editing
>HomeSite -- takes 30-60 seconds to open, no slowdown in editing
>Notepad -- takes a 5-10 seconds to open, editing is very slow
>Rusty's unfinished GBC IDE -- takes 5-10 seconds to load, editing is slow
>TIGCC IDE -- didn't wait for it to load (> 1 min)
>WordPad -- opens within a couple of seconds, editing is slow
>
>If you are writing an edit control for Win32, take note of this.  If your
>control doesn't scale, then you haven't done your job correctly.  Looking 
>at
>C++Builder's editor proves that it's possible to write a good control.  
>I've
>heard of people liking other editors like UltraEdit, TextPad, EditPad, 
>etc.,
>but I don't know how well any of those scale.  The file I was using to test
>is linked below (it's legitimately large text file):
>
>http://nesdev.parodius.com/nesdevma.zip
>
> > PS: Does anybody know a good Win9x text editor, because WordPad is 
>really
> > slo-o-o-w-ing do-o-o-w-w-n with files over 100KB.
>
>
>

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