More Memory for PB3.5

[Danny Blankenbyl]

Who wants More Memory ? Every one.
It's easy. Just shift those stings from your code in to a file.
At run time load them in to a virtual string array. Then when you want to
LOCATE 12,5 : ? "THE QUICK BROW FOX ETC"
DONT
JUST
CALL DS(23)

In the sub DS(x as integer) you grab the string at loction 23
depending on how you write your code this could do the LOCATE 12,5
and print the string.
You can write an application to search through your code, find suitable
stings to squash, copy to the holding file, stick a ' infront of the code
and add the required call DS() call.
To find out how much memory you will save use something like XTGOLD to view
you apps exe file. Towards the end of the exe you will find all the text stuff
grouped together.
I Have implemented the above and have halved this block of code.

[Michael Torrie]

This technique is also good for making your program handle different languages. On Linux, for example, there are libraries for doing this that let you create files of the messages in different languages, the file to use selected based on the current language. If you wrote an efficient caching routine, you could make this almost as fast as using internal, static strings.



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[Steve Bouffe]

How much memory does the EMM memory manager use ?

Would it reduce the string space available to PB Dos ?


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[Danny Blankenbyl]

As far as I know extra stings will not use up any of your 640k.
Each string will use will use the same amount of space as you will be
using fixed length strings in the virtual string array. And as you are
using QEMM memory manager you have 32M of ram for these strings
I set my system up for 100 bite long strings so I can fit about
300,000 strings ?

Danny Blankenbyl