[A83] Re: TitanASM

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: TitanASM
From: Jkhum98@aol.com
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 18:42:18 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
In a message dated 5/3/01 4:51:46 PM Central Daylight Time, gtolson@snet.net 
writes:


> >The source files will be separate external programs, often backed up into
> the 
> >archive, and the compiled programs will be separate programs created in 
> Ram 
> >that wont be archived unless done manually. The source data cannot be 
> stored 
> >to the app because the app remains in archive and cant be written to.  I 
> >suppose there might be a lot of writeback, but I will try to come up with 
> a 
> >good system to do the rearchiving infrequently but still keep the source 
> >protected.  When you are typing code, that is done in Ram, but source will
> be 
> >backed up before major events like compiling the program for execution, 
> and 
> >quitting the app; also perhaps before entering one of the external utility 
> >programs that must be executed in Ram. For the utility code/data (such as 
> a 
> >sprite editor), Ram space needs to be freed anyway to accomidate this 
> >program, so the source file will be updated in FlashRom, thus requiring 
> >another Archive to occur. However, if source files are split up into 
> several 
> >small files (maybe 1K each) and all are included in the project file, then 
> >the app wont need to handle and move larger sections of source at once.
> Thus, 
> >a small enough source file could stay in Ram whenever you are dealing with 
> >utilities, and not have to be rearchived until you decided to quit or 
> build 
> >the program.
> >
> >-Jason
> 
> You might just have a 'Save' key to backup to archive.

Yeah, I was planning on that too, but I was just contemplating the times 
where the archiving is done automatically by the system for the most 
protection of source, but the least number of writes - that was the topic; 
but there will be a Save key as well.

-Jason