Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5


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Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5



On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Mark Cartwright wrote:


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> 
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> > From: Andy Selle <aselle@earth.mat.net>
> > To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> > Subject: Re: LZ: Zshell 4.5
> > Date: Saturday, August 31, 1996 8:46 AM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Digital Dreamer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > These things have no place in the zshell kernel.  They should be 
> > > implemented in the program itself.  Otherwise zshell quickly becomes a 
> > > 6e12k pile of bloat.
> > > 
> > > dreamer
> > > 
> > Absolutely not.  What I would like to see is authors releasing not only 
> > the source to their routines, but a library that Zshell can use.  For 
> > example, Jingyang Xu could release NASR as a library and all the games 
> > that could use it wouldn't need to include it in there programs.  So if I
> 
> > have his Asteroids and my Spacewar both which use NASR we could access 
> > the library.  and use 50% of the mem that the routines (NASR) would use 
> > ormally.  
> > 
> > -Andy
> > 
> 
> Yes, but for people with not a lot of ZShell prorgams on their calc it is
> not very efficient.  Your are only going to see a big benefit from this
> when you have like 4 programs using NASR, even then you are giong to have
> unused libraries.
> 
> mark
> 
That is why I recommend to all authors to release two versions of their 
programs: a statically linked vers that works with 4.0 and a dynamically 
linked vers that works with 4.5 and libraries.  That way the user can 
choose which way is the most efficient for their needs.


-Andy


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