> Laurens Holst wrote:
> >
> > Jon, pay attention please!!!
>
> just returned from holiday :) and reading about 400 emails...
Hehe... I am a real devil...
> > I had a quite small Compass-program, though very often saved and
changed.
> > The size of it was about 65000 bytes. I already though this was absurd
but
> > since it .ASM-files are a direct dump of Compass memory I guessed a lot
of
> > additional information had to be saved.
>
> when you do a lot of 'cut 'n pasting', there are many empty gaps
> generated in the textbuffers. That's why it takes up so much space.
> It's the fastest method though.
Hmmm... I don't care that much about speed when cutting and pasting. If it
takes a little more time but the source keeps 10 times as small then I don't
care a damn. I bet it will speed up assembling too.
> > However, when I copied the source into another sourcebuffer and saved it
> > under another name, the .ASM-file was only 6000 bytes!!!
>
> When you copy the text to another buffer, all gaps disappear...
> You can also achieve this by saving the source in ASCII format and
> reload it again.
I believe that. But I don't like to do this. Maybe you can include an option
in some menu 'optimize source code' or so???
> > That's a factor 10 reduction in size Jon!!! Explain please???
>
> see above;
>
> I will try to make Compass 2.0 a bit more intelligent when
> cutting/pasting. But I don't know for sure yet...
yes, Yes, YES!!!
btw, when will Compass 2.0 be released??? I especially like the new
SHIFT-ESC shell... Why does Compass 1.2 return to Basic everytime a shell is
executed, even while it returned from Dos??? If I type too fast then I
intercept the _SYSTEM, and it doesn't go to Dos. It's quite annoying,
sometimes.
> I've experienced that for most sources you gain about 10kB unless you do
> a lot of 'big' rebuilding of your sourcecode.
Ummm... Well in my case this was extreme I guess... I'll check out the size
of my other files...
~Grauw
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