1 May
2007
1 May
'07
6:45 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
An 8MHz 8086 is more than twice as fast as Dave's target hardware (a
4.77MHz 8088). On such a machine, it would be tolerable.
Look, it's a nice viewer, but view a file out of a ramdisk on a 4.77MHz
8088 if you don't believe me. There's a 5-second minimum startup delay
to fill a buffer, then another delay when you cross memory windows. If
you're trying to inspect more than a handful of files at the same time,
it gets frustrating.
Don't confuse small size and age with "lightweight". A Boyer-Moore
search algorithm written in Pascal will outperform a REP CMPSB in
assembler. LIST is flexible but it's not the fastest.
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It's nice
to see LIST getting the votes, but it's very slow on 808x
hardware, which was Dave's target platform.
Buh?? I don't think I've ever seen a lighter-weight piece of
software than LIST...I used it daily when my 8MHz V20-based PC clone
was considered a screamer, and it was never any slower than "instant".