Re: Portability of games (was Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?)


Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:53:38 GMT

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Ackeret <mattack@eskimo.com> writes:

> o) Optionally removing the VM-ish paging. (This was done by
> Stefan Jokisch but isn't in the main ZIP distribution.) This of
> course helps speed things up on machines with 24 or 32 bit
> addressing and enough memory to hold the whole datafile in memory at
> once. Optionally (at compile time) since it's obviously preferable
> to leave it in for those that want it (willing to trade time for RAM
> usage) or need it.

I must admit I was surprised to see this still in interpreters: for
most machines, 256K or so is nothing.

For the Psion Series 3a, however, it's a large amount of memory, and I
imagine there are other small machines still out there, so I'd like to
keep it as an option. On this particular machine, it probably doesn't
cost very much in any case: everything is memory, including the file
systems, so reading from file doesn't take that long.

-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/