22 Dec
2006
22 Dec
'06
9:13 a.m.
Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Now 20 years later I'm using Turbo C++ 3.0 for this project, and it has
overlay support but it has a more complicated memory manager that goes
along with it. I don't have a lot of 'gas' in the code, so going to the
VROOOM overlay manager just to overlay my init code is overkill, and
will probably require more memory. I was hoping Borland had a simpler
mechanism ...
Turbo Pascal has a good overlay system, but it too is about 4K of code.
So if the amount of code size you're trying to save is the same size
or smaller than the overlay manager itself, it doesn't make sense to
overlay.
Unfortunately I can't think of any easy solutions at this point. I can
think of solutions, but not easy ones :)
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