Re: Resources and Euphoria
>Graeme wondered about my bundling scheme:
>
>>I don't understand why you have to bind it twice.
>>Surely you can just append the index info to the file
>>in reverse order and just start reading backwards from
>>the end ?
>
>It's possible, but files tend to be cached on the assumption that you =
>will read in the opposite direction. As a result, I think you would lose =
>some efficiency.
>
>But if I built the files as a linked list, in the form ...
Linked lists are good, but if I understand your origional post
correctly, the only reason you need to bind the file twice is
to insert the length of the bound executable into the source
code. If you store the offset in the last four bytes and write
code that reads this value once, at program start up (lost time
measured in milliseconds), the rest of it can be in any format
you want. This removes the need for the programmer to re-edit
the code for each application, and bind it twice and manualy
enter the offset with every source update.
Graeme
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