Re: LZ: My thoughts on USGARD
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Re: LZ: My thoughts on USGARD
>Well, USGARD has come out. Woo hoo. It's not as great as I expected.
>All the hype for it just made it look way too good, and now it's come
>out, and it's just a shell. Or actually, it's not. It's too much. All
>the arguments about how big it is are really very well founded as far as
>I'm concerned. I don't really want to bash USGARD yet, because it is
>still beta, but it's just way too big for my tastes.
>Mainly, I really hate how many keypresses everything takes. Six
>keypresses to shut down with USGARD, ONE with CShell.
> Also, the libraries were a great idea, but it just won't work. There
>are a lot of great ZShell games that I want to keep on my calc, and
>whoever made them isn't an active programmer anymore, so there won't be
>a new usgard version. Also, judging from mega racers (which, by the
>way, I think is a good game, but way too big), all the things about
>USGARD that are supposed to make programs faster really don't do much.
>I didn't it notice it as all that much faster. Hey, come out with
>Daedalus for USGARD and let's see how much faster that is.
Well programs are faster with Usgard because of pointer relocation.
And daedalus already used a rudimentary form of relocation so it
wouldn't be much faster (otherwise daedalus wouldn't have been
possible).
-Mel
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