12-27-2013, 05:50 PM
(12-27-2013, 10:57 AM)Frontrider Wrote: I think the compiler should write into chests.They work like extremly compact tapes, and mutch easier to transport.Then the code can be loaded into the existing memory.
The problem with doing that is that, although chests can hold a lot of information in a tiny space, it is really difficult to get that information out without it being huge. So if the person has already built a reader for chests, it's easy enough, but otherwise, it's kind of a pain, and slow regardless. Also, people usually use Read-only memory for their CPUs, so you can't assume that the existing memory is able to be loaded to. If the person was working with ROM, then in addition to the chest reader that they would have to build, they would have to switch their program memory to be able to be written to, which would make it way bigger. I think it makes a lot more sense to just have the filter turn the code into a ROM unit, which would fix both of the described problems.