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Article #540Re: Overlay Advice for MSC5.1
From: Jonathan R. Watts
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 03:40
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 1990 03:40
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From article <14359@onyx.BBN.COM>, by hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison): > Does anyone know of any software tools which can assist in designing > an optimal overlay strategy for MSC5.1? We have a rather complex > application which takes up about 400K of memory with no overlays. > Through a simple-minded approach we have reduced this to about 200K > with about a dozen overlays. Problem is that the system thrashes > heavily with this overlay. Is there something that would tell us > what is being most commonly called, either at runtime, or by > off-line analysis of the code? Borland's new Turbo Profiler (part of Turbo Debugger and Tools) can profile overlay activity...at least it can with Turbo language programs. I assume it will still work with CodeView programs converted to the Turbo format...anyone know for sure? - Jonathan Watts jrwsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu (Internet address)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!nmt.edu!jrwsnsr From: jrwsnsr@nmt.edu (Jonathan R. Watts) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Overlay Advice for MSC5.1 Message-ID: <1990Jul26.034009.26377@nmt.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 03:40:09 GMT References: <14359@onyx.BBN.COM> Distribution: alt Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Lines: 18