Re: Anybody has experience with SLIM BINARIES?

jhan@delphi.umd.edu (Jay Han)
9 Jul 1997 23:16:38 -0400

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From: jhan@delphi.umd.edu (Jay Han)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Jul 1997 23:16:38 -0400
Organization: None
References: 97-06-083 97-06-117 97-07-033
Keywords: UNCOL, linker

Robert M. Muench wrote:
> > Anybody has experience with SLIM BINARIES?


I have: it's great. I used OMI (Oberon/Object Module Interchange--an old
name for slim binary) on old version of Macintosh Oberon (4.1F). It gives
you choice between two sets of same modules: normal object file and slim
binary. Slim binary modules load (or compile on-the-fly) and run as fast
as the normal ones; and they are a lot smaller. I have experienced little
noticeable degradation in any way, and I ran it on Mac LC, m68020 16MHz.
I have not yet tried Netscape add-ons.


Check out the home page of Prof. M. Franz, the creator of OMI/Slim Binary:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz


best,
            J.
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jhan@delphi.umd.edu
[Took a look, it's a clever way to encode an UNCOL compactly, and looks like
a fine plan for systems like Macs where you have different kinds of CPU
running the exact same operating system. -John]




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