ABasiC program size
25-Nov-85 00:54:27
Sb: #42520-ABasiC program size
Fm: Kevin Bjorke 74756,464
To: Dick Darling 75635,756
Dick: I agree, and wasn't trying to defend MetaComCo, just try to figure out
what the heck is going on inside this box. I work at a company where we have a
very large computing facility dedicated to just a small number of people, and
we often tend to do things "sloppily" — small efficiency issues often tend to
be ignored when you have a lot of memory and higher processor rates. Or as one
of our Research guys says whenever we find some particularly inefficient code:
"So what, we have a Cray." I suspect that the foolks at MetaComCo had a certain
degree of the same attitude. Sure, ABasiC isn't as efficient as MBASIC — who
cares, we have 512k and a virtually full-speed 68000. This attitude can let you
get things out quickly, but I can't say I approve of it past that. A major part
of our work software effort over recent months has involved going back over
software that was being supported by hardware efficiencies and fixing it — and
finally starting to really see what our machines can DO. ^Kx