Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:31:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <199811020131.RAA07047@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 19:06:42 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811011858200.18422-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> > It builds a little bigger here; it weighs in at about 40k. If you > > strip the OO extensions out it comes down to about 22k. I don't know > > I stripped LOCALS, multithreading, stack checking, but added KEY... Well, > this is still around 20k. Ok. Should I commit my working version so that we have a central place to perform the strip-down and integration? > > whether there's much we can strip from the core wordset; I'll leave > > that for the FORTH guruen to argue over. At 22k (plus whatever it > > As I said above, we probably can strip CORE-EXT and SEARCH - I wouldn't > touch the CORE itself, however. Again, being not much of a Forth head it's not clear whether we should keep all of the compiled-in functionality and just strip the things that can be reloaded at runtime. I guess that items that are of principal interest to a programmer should be conditionalised out, ie. produce a BFDK and a BFRT. 8) > > costs to bind it in) I think we have a goer. Doug's resolved the Alpha > > space issues too, so it should be comfy. > > Great! I think we won't regret it... I hope not. 8) I'm all in favour of extension languages but I'm still in two minds about whether Forth is going to be the right one for this job. > > > U __assert > > > > We need an assert. > > You mean: "anyway"? Because it's only as a diagnostics and can be defined > as no-op. I noticed. It should certainly be enabled in the BFDK. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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