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#2002From: Russ WetmoreDec 16, 1985 12:21 PM
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.