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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need to optimize 8086 C code for size
Message-ID: <161@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 88 15:47:08 GMT
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Use medium or compact model.  Avoid always reloading segment registers.
The 80?*8[68] wasn't meant to be used in large/huge model.  See if you can
find a compiler that supports this.  More important, see if you can find a
linker.  And expect lots of nasty, obscure, nondeterministic bugs.

Another approach for getting extremely small, slow programs is to build an
interpreter for your problem domain, then interpret a program for your
problem.  Some BASIC programs will be considerably tighter than C.