Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: What's the BEST CLI for the ST
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.123427.11100@doe.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: MiNT
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 12:34:27 GMT


In <111@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> 
> 	Sounds like a TSR is necessary - so instruction space can be shared.
> Has anyobdy done any work on this idea?
> 

Eric Smith plans to add shared text segments to a later version of MiNT.
I am not sure exactly what this involves, but I imagine that he will come
up with some way of identifying a program which is already running
(same path and checksum?), and swap the .bss and .data in and out with
task changes. This would slow down MiNT a bit, but with programs like
bash(1) which is mostly .text, it would save a lot of memory. Comments?
Suggestions? If someone wants to write this themselves, it will show
up faster (Eric shouldn't have to do everything himself).


David

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