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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (JAMES ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech "limitation"
Message-ID: <50034@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 17:39:28 GMT
References: <4895d648.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <619@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (JAMES ADCOCK)
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In article <619@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes:
XC'mon, dude.  We all know the Intel Processors are brain-damaged.  This is
Xpretty old news.  Besides, what's the big deal about calling malloc to build
Xa >64K two-dimensional array?  On the PC, the code generated is going to
Xbe better than if Walter did you the 'favor' of giving you huge arrays.
XSo you just do something like:

Looking towards the future, IMHO, make sure you get at least a 386sx, so
that you will be able to run flat model.  To do any kind of serious OOP,
you need at least large model, but large model OOP leads to pretty hideous
machine code.  Flat model OOP seems to be the way to go, and should help
portability a lot, as long as people consider byte ordering.

PS: What micro-processor design *isn't* brain-damaged?

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