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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mark Williams C 2.0 benchmark
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 23:41:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 23:41:47 1987
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Summary: But can you use MWC in RAM?  And free locations IN RAM?

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I am sort of a RAM freak (and don't have a hard disk), and even with the
RAMdisk I look for better performance.  The point of my "Megamax is faster
than MWC" posting was that (as far as I know) one cannot use MWC completely
in RAMdisk (for more than miniscule jobs, anyway).  That makes SUCH a
difference in performance (from the programmer's point of view: the time
to compile and link) that it is a very qualitative issue.  (You can always
compile your final code with the compiler that generates better code.)

Thanks for the advice people sent me about using the clipboard and other
AES calls for interprocess communications.  That's not what I asked, though.
I want something that can be used from a SMALL program (no GEM!), and that
does it all in RAM (no files!).  Any RAM locations free for such things?
(Jwahar Bammi told me the 768 bytes above the screen area are "free" but
warned not to use them...)

- Moshe Braner