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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Burton Radons wrote:
> Why does this violation of modular segregation exist?
Historic reasons. IIRC Shawn stated that if he was meant to write _now_
Allegro from scratch, he would have made Allegro more modular. But Allegro
is now very big, and I think that the effort to rewrite it wouldn't be
soooo terrifying useful to gain a few bytes.
Surely it would be very great to have Allegro add to the binary say just 6
Kb for initialization, and from there on grow in little steps. But well,
that's what you have with shared libs, no? It's just a pity dos doesn't
support them as well as Linux or Windows, were the usual binary is hardly
above 50Kb...
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