Benjamin Stuhl:
# --- Brian Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# > I've been thinking alot about the bytecode file format
# > lately. Its
# > going to get really gross really fast when we start
# > adding other
# > (optional) sections to the code.
# >
# > So, with that in mind, here's what I propose:
# >
# > * All data sizes are in longwords (4 bytes) because
# > that's just the way
# > things are :)
#
# We can't do that. There are platforms on both ends that
# have _no_ native 32-bit data formats (Crays, some 16-bit
# CPUs?). They still need to be able to load and generate
# bytecode without ridiculuous CPU penalties (your Palm III
# is not running on a 700MHz Pentium III, after all!)
Er, Palm OS 3.5 has an Int32 data type. (Earlier Palms had that too,
but it was named something else. Since most 32-bit processors have
64-bit integer types available, it makes sense that 16-bit processors
would have 32-bit integers.) And I somewhat doubt that Crays will have
problems with startup time. :^)
--Brent Dax
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They *will* pay for what they've done.
