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Re: Block swapping

From wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at>
Newsgroups comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject Re: Block swapping
Date 2020-08-12 07:07 +0200
Organization KESYS-development
Message-ID <rgvtfe$16sh$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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On 11.08.2020 15:40, T. Ment wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:59:31 +0200, wolfgang kern wrote:
> 
>>>> it's OK for pure DOS. my block-move/-swap/-merge routines are much
>>>> simpler because I use BIG-REALmode and can work on linear addresses with
>>>> only little overhead to calculate seg:offs-->LINADR and swap Dest/Src if
>>>> necessary or automatic change direction to DOWN in case of overlapping.
> 
>>> No link?
> 
>> where to ?
> 
> Your purported magnificent code.

it was part of my old DOS-extender, now all is in my OS un-Protected 
32/64 bit FLAT, but the code remained almost the same.
Sorry there are no code-snips available, It would need me to manual 
enter ASM-lines here.

>>> Chappell's code swaps blocks using minimal extra space (16 bytes). Can
>>> you beat that?

>> I'd like to see this 16 bytes in hex before any attempt to shrink it.

> You have the wrong idea. Chappell's book explains if you care to know.

I haven't seen any hex-dump nor an assembly for it
__
wolfgang

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Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2019-10-10 19:33 +0000
  Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2019-10-11 16:41 +0000
  Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-07-18 19:12 +0000
    Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-07-18 19:14 +0000
    Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-07-19 03:06 +0000
    Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-07-19 18:08 +0000
      Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-09 15:51 +0000
        Re: Block swapping wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2020-08-10 08:15 +0200
          Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-10 11:28 +0000
            Re: Block swapping wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2020-08-11 08:59 +0200
              Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-11 13:40 +0000
                Re: Block swapping wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2020-08-12 07:07 +0200
                Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-12 12:49 +0000
                Re: Block swapping wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2020-08-13 04:16 +0200
                Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-13 03:00 +0000
                Re: Block swapping wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2020-08-13 09:00 +0200
                Re: Block swapping T. Ment <t.ment@protocol.invalid> - 2020-08-13 13:09 +0000

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