Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: quickst, bigscrn
Keywords: bombs...
Message-ID: <512@electro.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 04:43:27 GMT
References: <1382@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <1382@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> verwer@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer) writes:
>that the `enhanced' version is about 28k, wheras the old version was only
>6k. Where does the increased size come from?


the extra code space is now eaten up by the re-arranged fonts that are used
by the v_gtext() routines. this memory used to be allocated at run time,
so total memory usage has really only gone up from about 20K to 28K.
also, code was added for faster line drawing, rectangle fills, etc.

remember, program size is NOT indicative of how much memory the program will
use.

an informal survey we (me and Darek) conducted on GEnie showed users wanted
a larger, faster version of Quick ST rather than a smaller, slower version. so
we give them what they want. hell, Turbo ST is 40K.

quick st can be made to use as little as 10K of memory, but it would be
slower.



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Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      

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