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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: terminfo and curses
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Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 02:59:17 EST
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> >	A 30K curses program on the 6350 is 60K on the 8000.
> >
> >	A non-curses program on the 8000 is typically 25%
> >	smaller than the identical C code on the 6350
> >	because of optimization.
> >
> 1)	I don't know about the differences between a 6350 and an 8000
> 	but, do you know if the compiler is the exact same on both systems?

From his statements, it seems to me as if he knows that the compiler is, in
fact, NOT the same on both systems - and that it produces BETTER code on the
machine where the "curses" program is bigger!

> 2)	Terminal-independent code is most likely going to be larger than
> 	terminal-specific code. Trade-offs ya know :) 

What does that have to do with the price of eggs?  He isn't comparing the
size of a piece of terminal-independent code with a piece of
terminal-specific code here.  He's saying that the "curses" code
on the 6350 is smaller than the "curses" code on the 8000 - you can argue
that both versions of "curses" are terminal-independent (because they're
use the terminal databases "termcap" and "terminfo", respectively, to guide
their actions).  He mentioned the non-curses program just to show that the
compiler is probably not at fault here - the program in question is bigger
on the 8000 because "curses" is bigger on the 8000.
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	Guy Harris
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