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to: Keith Thomson
from: Allan Mertner
date: 1996-04-19 14:27:02
subject: Re: SP and VP `hello world`

Hej Keith!

Thursday April 11 1996, Keith Thomson writes to Peter Yao:

 KT> the author of SP said that before 1.5 they were doing some heavy
 KT> code-size optimizations, This was with SP 1.5 beta 4 that i got those
 KT> #'s..

 KT> SP 1.0 got 14k on both PM and VIO..  The US support person said they're
 KT> going to try and stuff it back down to that :)

FWIW, the smallest possible Hello World program you can write with the
final SP/2 v1.5 is 27648 bytes, plus the DLL.

The minimum size of the same program in VP/2 v1.00 is 4044 bytes, or 3460 if
linked to run under Warp.

Yours,
Allan Mertner

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