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Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional
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Date: 19 May 88 02:26:31 GMT
References: <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com> <53610@sun.uucp> <6584@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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>Microsoft programs are compiled to Pcode to save space.  If you look
>at Word with resedit, you will see that there are about 30k of
>native code for booting and interpreting the Pcode, and a ~400k
>Pcode resource.
>
>		David Palmer
>		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu

I noticed the PCOD resources and guessed that was what they were.  Anyone
know why Microsoft doesn't use P-code for Excel?  My hunch is that the
speed penalty, while not noticeable in a word processor, would be to great
on a calculation intensive program like Excel.

Anyone at Microsoft got a comment? (yeah, right)

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