Lee Martineau wrote:
>
> "An 8 KB one-time size hit is a trivial amount on a modern PC, but on
> the
> Palm, 8 KB is 1/4 of the worst-case total program size."
>
> Multi-segment programs allow you to make truly large Palm programs
> (several
> hundred Kbytes). I don't know if there are any other compiler/os
> limits, but
> Palms are available with 7+ Mbyte of free space for programs.
Why is "because I can" a good reason for making huge programs?
I well know about multi-segmenting, and my FAQ also points to resources
for doing that. But, I see no reason for making your programs huge on a
device designed to be as small as reasonably possible, just to save a
bit of time in development. We're not developing for PCs or WinCE
devices here. This is a Palm we're talking about here.
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