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to: TIM HUTZLER
from: OLIVIER DAGENAIS
date: 1997-02-05 16:45:00
subject: Re: Assy access of strin

OD>as well.. (I guess.. Which is first in the far method: segment or
OD>offset?)
TH>Segment is adx+1.
OD>Huh? What is ADX? It is the 32bit version of DX, as EAX is of AX?
 TH> Sorry, "adx" is short for the address of the instruction data, and
Address of the instruction data?  Please elaborate...
 TH> oops, I ment adx+2. My point was that the segment of the address is
 TH> two bytes higher than the offset. And, ofcourse, I am refering to the
 TH> 16-bit model.
adx+2 ....because both are expressed as Words?
TH>favoriate functions, mostly screen/keyboard IO. The largest programs
TH>sorce code is under 200k, and i have not taken a speed hit, yet. [grin]
OD>"not taken a speed hit, yet"... meaning your routines are fast????
 TH> On a 586 they sure are. But, what I ment was that compile times are
 TH> only two or three seconds for even those file sizes. PowerBASIC is a
Yup.  My Quick-Basic compiler happens to be fast, too.  The largest I 
compiled must be my SamsalP demo... Didn't take THAT long to compile...
 TH> true compiler and produces machine code. As for how effient it is, I
 TH> have not performed any analysis.
What, there are "fake" compilers?
See ya around!
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