Re: Why RosAsm Breaks on a large number of symbols

From: hutch-- (hutch_at_movsd.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 06:01:29 -0700

Wannabee,

Are you sure you have not fallen off your pirch again ? If I
understand what you are talking about, if you write a loop and set the
highers priority to the app with that loop you lock up the box. It can
probably happen although I doubt it on any of the NT based systems, I
have locked up various things one win2k and it can be closed down by
the system without any problems.

The questions is why would you write a loop that sets the highest
priority to the app with the loop in the first place ? When you poll
in the manner that the shell procedure does, it starts from a normal
priority and runs another process with a higher priority. You can in
fact set the calling apps priority to idle which improves it if the
process being called has a known normal priority.

Where you have commented about the installation speed of the MASM32
project, what you don't know is that it takes the same time without
the shell procedure in the interface. I know this because I had to
make the entire archive first before appending it to the installer. It
is a very dense 7zip archive that does a lot of work unpacking and
then ML.EXE and LINK.EXE take a lot of processor time building about
25 meg of libraries. If you run something else while its working, it
will get very slow as a background process which is normal. This has
nothing to do with the shell procedure and happens without the
installer running.

The install will work even with background priority but it is normal
with an installation to not be running other applications at all.

Now as far as falling of your pirch, here is another suggestion that
may help you some, always make sure when you need to have a bowel
movement that you go to the other end of the pirch first otherwise,
when you fall off the pirch you will land in a pile of your own crap
and end up even poopier than you are now.

Also try to miss the bird bath when you have a bowel movement as it
will nmake the water taste terrible.

Regards,

hutcxh at movsd dot com

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