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hehe. This is a common mistake – register indirect addressing is _faster_ than
absolute addressing, on every command bar none. I even had to point this out
to a "seasoned veteran" of the 68000 once. This is a common mistake because
it's this way on most processors – the 68000 is the exception to the rule.
All Mac compilers (to the best of my knowledge) _only_ allow you to create
relocatable code – indeed, this is the only type of code which will work on the
Mac because of the way its heap management works. "CODE" resources are no
different from any other data type – they are loaded into the heap wherever
there's room, and global references into the block are resolved.