[comp.sys.acorn] size of "Hello, World" programs

mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) (03/01/91)

enevill@acorn.co.uk (Edward Nevill) writes:
> The best solution is to use the shared C library. This will result
> in the size of the the "Hello, World" program being reduced to 5k
> from 30k and the size of larger programs being reduced by 60k.
> The drawback is that the shared C library must always be loaded,
> however given that there will usually be more than one C program
> running at a time this should result in a net win (somewhere between
> 0 and 60k win for two C programs / modules simultaneously loaded).

Why not dump the BASIC, making it an executable on disk, and put the shared
C library on ROM?


mathew.