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Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 02:26
Date: Thu, 19 May 1988 02:26
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>Microsoft programs are compiled to Pcode to save space. If you look
>at Word with resedit, you will see that there are about 30k of
>native code for booting and interpreting the Pcode, and a ~400k
>Pcode resource.
>
> David Palmer
> palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
I noticed the PCOD resources and guessed that was what they were. Anyone
know why Microsoft doesn't use P-code for Excel? My hunch is that the
speed penalty, while not noticeable in a word processor, would be to great
on a calculation intensive program like Excel.
Anyone at Microsoft got a comment? (yeah, right)
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