Next Amigas
19-May-86 03:04:06
Sb: #19261-Next Amigas
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Robert Benedict 75205,112
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Even bigger advantage with Amiga's are the ROM libraries, and also disk
resident libraries. They have the same advantages, save for a very small
speed penalty, but have two other BIG advantages: you never have to
recompile/relink/re-anything in the application program, you just fix the
library. If a library has bugs and 100 programs use the library, all you fix
is the library , the programs should then all work without updates. The
other big advantage is that each program is much smaller, since it doesn't
have to carry around the library routines with it. Also, you only keep one
copy of the library in ram, and many programs can share acess. I hope there
will be a number of nifty libraries available as PD or low-fee tools
available to all developers/publishers/hackers-at-large.