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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ADE
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 17:47:52
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- Michael B. Smith (mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us) wrote:
- : In article <DKuzuJ.49n@cyf-kr.edu.pl> iskra@student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Kamil Iskra) writes:
- : > > In article <mbs.46mp@adastra.cvl.va.us>,
- : > > Michael B. Smith <mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us> wrote:
- : > > >rez is a way of keeping program, normally loaded from disk, at each
- : > > >request; in memory. When a shell or another program tries to run a
- : > > >rez'ed program, a copy is provided from memory; without having to load
- : > > >it from disk.
- : > > >
- : > > >It uses lots more memory; but it's worlds faster too.
- : >
- : > What's the difference between this program and standard system "resident"
- : > command?
- :
- : Using 'rez' does _not_ require a program to be pure. ANY program
- : can be 'rez'ed.
- :
- : For things like gcc, where -resident hasn't worked since 2.3.3 (or so),
- : it's quite important.
-
- If a command is not pure, it must be reloaded for each invocation. So what is
- the functional difference between this "rez" program and copying the command
- to RAM:? Or isn't there one?
-
- -- Mat.
-