From: Mike McCarty (jmccarty_at_ssd.usa.alcatel.com)
Date: 2001-08-15 17:52:09
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Keates, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > however, IMHO "real" blitter functionality (as in amiga-blitter) would
> > be handy -no doubt- but unfortunatly be very inefficient considering
> > we are aiming for a portable library approach.
>
> <2 cents mode>
> Is 'library' the wrong word here? Shouldn't this be 'interface'?
> This allows portability but it doesn't imply that the implementation
> has to be the same for the different platforms. Therefore I'd go for
> the approach where Assembler routines do the low level work with a
> 'common' API interface through 'C' calls.
[snip]
IMO, "library" implies just that, that many things are collected into
one place, nothing about how it is implemented.
Do you think that "fgets()" has the same implementation on Sun/Solaris
(which I use at work) and on the 6502?
Mike
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