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Re: Funding


That is an interesting idea. Maybe the system could track which code got
executed more often, an it could optimize that, and code that rarely if
ever got executed could be removed..

Lonnie
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>At 16:55 -0800 16/3/99, Lonnie Reed wrote:
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><snipetty doo dah....>
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>>One idea is to have a bloated system, that can handle most pc hardware and
>>it optimzes itself when you first run it, by getting rid of code that supports
>>hardware you don't have, and creates an image that is stripped down to support
>>your configuration only. Maybe metacompile a highlevel forth to create
>>optimzed
>>assembly for the hardware...
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>>Lonnie
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>I have thought about this and the best solution I can come up with is a
>regular 'dieting' session, something along the lines of a self-repairing OS
>that 'adjusted' itself to any changes in the hardware configuration.
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>Regards,
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>Luis.
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