Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: How are some programs SO DAMN SMALL! Message-ID: <1991Feb14.234430.2525@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 23:44:30 GMT References: <91045.150604GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 No! Mike is not talking about BASIC... :-) I know of what he speaks, but I'm not going to spoil the fun... :-) Hint: the smallest do nothing `executable' (As you all are thinking about it on the Amiga) is 40 bytes long! This is one RTS instruction. Most of the bytes come from the overhead needed to support the Amiga's dynamic loader, etc... Since Mike claims (I have `checked', he's right of course) his small Hello World is only 20 bytes, he is not talking about a 'C', OR 'asm' program. hehehe Loren J. Rittle -- ``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would not* be made to directly support the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' -A scene at the recent MacExpo. Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so worried about one little Amiga Device... Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu