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Re: API changes
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Sat, 12 May 2001 14:16:04 GMT
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In article <3AFBDCF8.ACBC34AE@durham.ac.uk>, Kieran Elby wrote:
My only concern with these proposed changes is possible increased memory
usage.

I don't imagine that these changes will increase memory usage much,
since they are largely just re-working existing features. I will look
into the memory usage before releasing, though. In fact, I think that
after I redid the networking a bit and added the reliable protocol, it
was no larger than before, because I was able to eliminate some buffers.

--matt



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I'm actually on my way to my baccalaureate ceremony right now, but I do want to say that I feel very strongly that API changes for the sake of API changes should not be checked in. The current API, while not always intuitive, is well documented and (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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My only concern with these proposed changes is possible increased memory usage. Encapsulation, error reporting, thread synchronisation etc are nice; but with just 32k of RAM I would question whether these are appropriate for some applications. For (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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