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| From | Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released |
| Date | 2019-01-02 10:15 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <q0i310$1hn4$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <ap.efc4d7576f.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk> <576ff05728dave@triffid.co.uk> |
Dave Symes wrote: > Steve Drain wrote: >> Crunchie is a crunching utility for BASIC files written in BASIC. > Why? Because you can? For me it was primarily a plaything at first. ;-) > I could understand back in the days, with small amounts of RAM and small > disk storage available... Memory saving is not a motivation. A relatively small but significant speed gain might be. Obfuscation of programs is, not necessarily for secrecy, but to prevent users modifying programs and causing the maintainer problems when it all goes wrong. The plain source might also be supplied for public programs, but the crunching fixes a working version.
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Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2019-01-02 07:09 +0000
Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-01-02 10:15 +0000
Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released DavidW1975 <dwilliams64@hotmail.com> - 2019-01-02 03:38 -0800
Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-01-02 15:16 +0000
Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-01-02 16:21 +0000
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