Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:37752 comp.sys.amiga.tech:6451 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Relying on ARP (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)) Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 89 14:28:14 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> <26758@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <20904@cup.portal.com> <26872@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1331@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 35 In-reply-to: vkr@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 2 Aug 89 18:08:51 GMT In article <1331@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> vkr@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes: In article <26872@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: >I've heard rumors that something similar to ARP, only better designed >(not cramming everything into one library) is on 1.4. I am not sure that not cramming everything in one library will save space: [speculations on storage costs of 1.4 libraries deleted] I think that when Mike said "better designed", he was referring to design philosophy rather than storage requirements. I.E. by putting only related functionality into each library, you get more efficient library usage -- you're not loading a bunch of excess baggage when you open a library to do something, but loading a bunch of related functions you probably needed to use anyway. Currently, the ARP library is sort of a hodge-podge of unrelated functions. It gets away with it because it's not very large, but it is not good from the standpoint of future expansion. In Mike's earlier message, he said that the 12K savings from using ARP commands over AmigaDOS commands was "insignificant." Well, I haven't had my hard disk long enough to forget what using a floppy-based system was like, and 12K is very significant when you only have an 880K disk to boot from and half of it is taken up by necessary things like libraries and devices. In fact, that was the major reason why I bought a hard disk -- I wanted a huge environment with every command I could think of available to me at all times. --M -- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM