Re: A85: Why even use libraries?
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Re: A85: Why even use libraries?
Also, how many instructions (clock cycles?) does it take to call a
library?
-mike pearce
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:43:51 +0200, you wrote:
>I think it's about 150 bytes.
> Andreas
>
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>From: Michael Pearce[SMTP:mikep@anet-dfw.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 7:21 PM
>To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: A85: Why even use libraries?
>
>Does anyone know how large the code for using libraries is in Usgard?
>i would be extrememly interested to know this.
>
>-mike
>
>On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:02:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
>>Why not just use all of the routines you would call from some generic
>>library, and put them at the end of your program like a subroutine? It would
>>allow you to modify the routine for whatever way you wanted it to do, and
>>only waste space if two programs use the exact same routine. This might
>>happen fairly frequently, but with the amount of space on the calculator, you
>>can only hold so many games, so even if libraries would save you 300 bytes,
>>have you ever heard of a 300 byte game that was worth anything?
>>
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