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- From: shell!graffiti!peter (Peter da Silva)
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 85 08:01:43 cst
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- > > ...but it would not work out nearly as well if I had to
- > > make that kind of decision at runtime.
- > Why not? The penalty is a small increase in the size of the
- > binary.
-
- For certain architectures, for instance PDP-11 and 8086 small memory
- model, that "small increase" may make the difference between having
- the program run or not. There have been all too many programs posted
- that are "just a little too big" for the PDP-11 to dismiss this
- consideration.
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