dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (05/27/88)
I would like to award Brian McElhinney the award for the Highest Percentage of Code Size Global Data Award: 27% for emacs. Now seriously... I DO understand the global data issues. I have ported yacc and lex to the Mac and understand the initialized data problems and solutions. And I appreciate your comments about the same. Perhaps if someone was more curious, we could look at global data requirements of both "bad" and "Good" programs and see if there is any correlation at all between code size and global data size. It is an interesting question, although I do not quite know what we would learn from it. My point is that we don't have global data beyond 32K on the Mac in an effecient manner quite yet. MPW 3.0 will help. In the meantime, I think there are many reasonable ways that can be used to solve global data problems, most of which can be implemented in less time than has been spent on the net talking about this stuff. Let's all go write more code.. with the appropriate percentage of global data of course.... (I wonder if this is anything like percent body fat?) Dan Allen Software Explorer Apple Computer
olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson) (05/27/88)
Perhaps we should rename this group comp.sys.mac.globaldata.limits?
-Eric
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