Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@roundpoint.com>, in response to
> > .....My understanding ....is that API calls are "late-bound" -
> > the actual character
> > string representation of the method call is still in
> > the downloaded binary.
>
> Of course they are late-bound - otherwise they couldn't work in
> different phones!
There's more than one way to skin that cat - e.g., the BIOS
approach, with its standardized trap codes for OS intrinsics.
Me:
> > That would seem to bulk it out a little, to the extent that
> > cHTML content is tag-text, anyway.
He:
> No, it shouldn't - each function name only needs to appear once for
> each class (or maybe only once in the whole package).
Which is why I said "bulk it out *a little*" - if the API were BIOS-style,
the function names wouldn't need to appear at all. If an iAppli
consisted of a lot of different calls and not much else, the extra
late-binding overhead might even be significant.
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Tue May 22 11:46:58 2001