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C vs. ASM (size vs speed) (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 09.04.2009, 14:14

> > It's not a "run from floppy" version, it just fits compressed on a
> single
> > 1.44 MB (not overformatted) floppy. The idea is to make migration
> between
> > machines easier, to have a small but good ANSI C compiler (32-bit,
> POSIX,
> > LFN).
>
> Damn, my 386 had only a 5 1/4 HD floppy. Well, then it wouldn't have
> worked anyway.

In theory, since you don't still have that 386 (right?), if you "downgraded" to 2.8.1 or 2.7.2.3, removed AR.EXE, and used UHarc, etc., you could probably fit it in 1.2 MB.

 

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