Baffled by Benchmark
05-Dec-87 06:32:40
Sb: #96665-Baffled by Benchmark
Fm: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
To: Richard Bielak 75716,352
Ahh, some light is dawning. When I pass a string to a menu, AmigaDOS sez "gee,
the guy's already got that doggone thing somewhere in memory since it's living
in his program, so why should I make another copy just to splatter onto the
screen? I'll just use his original. A byte saved is a byte earned."
Now here I was, a diskette full of menu titles, all set to begin a loop which
would read the first title into a little buffer, set up a menu, read the next
title into the buffer, set up another menu, until EOF; and _now_ I learn that
this important application is _impossible._ Oh woe is me.