From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Adapting an Ada compiler to generate 8051 code (Again?! ;-)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:08:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s42ve7$9vb$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s3v3us$dfc$1@gioia.aioe.org
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
news:s3v3us$dfc$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> On 2021-03-30 13:27, mockturtle wrote:
>
>> Well, old ZX Spectrum with its 48K RAM extension (I and my brother said
>> when we extended the RAM: "What are we going to do with all this memory?"
>> :-D ) used just 64K and you could do nice stuff. The first release of
>> Turbo Pascal (editor and compiler integrated) was a .COM, limited by
>> design to 64K.
>
> I remember the glorious time when 1K weighted 1kg (:-))
>
> When I started, I and my pal worked together on a 256K machine in two time
> sharing terminal sessions. That was RSX-11M. These days almost every
> executable begins at 5-10M.
You need to use a compiler (at least some of the time) that cares about size
(i.e. Janus/Ada). Even Claw GUI programs usually don't exceed 0.5MB (and
command line programs can be many times smaller). Smaller programs are often
faster as well -- paging pressure is a real thing.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-30 9:04 Adapting an Ada compiler to generate 8051 code (Again?! ;-) mockturtle
2021-03-30 9:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-03-30 11:24 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-03-30 11:27 ` mockturtle
2021-03-30 12:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-03-31 23:08 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2021-03-31 23:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-03-30 10:40 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-03-30 11:32 ` mockturtle
2021-03-31 23:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-01 15:07 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-04-01 23:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-03-30 11:24 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-03-30 13:28 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-03-30 12:45 ` Björn Lundin
2021-03-30 15:49 ` Shark8
2021-03-30 19:16 ` Paul Rubin
2021-03-30 21:28 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-03-30 21:48 ` Paul Rubin
2021-03-31 4:46 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-03-31 7:19 ` Simon Wright
2021-03-31 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-01 12:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-04-01 23:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-02 0:41 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-03-31 8:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-03-31 20:46 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-03-31 21:14 ` Shark8
2021-03-31 21:25 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-03-31 21:46 ` Shark8
2021-03-31 23:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-01 13:19 ` Luke A. Guest
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