A83: Re: Re: Fresh News
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A83: Re: Re: Fresh News
> Sorry, this idea has already been done. And if you are going to copy the
> rom, it would not run any faster. You need to compile programs to use
> integer operations. Then you might as well use a C compiler, which would
> make code huge.
Well as a matter of fact only compiling the code to CALLs already greatly
increases the speed because there is no interpreter anymore.
Well anyways, it IS possible, there are several Basic-compilers for MSX
(KUN-Basic, NestorBasic, BASCOM). It DOES increase speed alot, however. 10x
faster is no exeption. But I think this is not really realizable on the
TI-83. Too little RAM etc. In addition, TI-BASIC really sucks being a
program language. IF such a thing is made I suggest to make it GW / Q-Basic
compatible.
And yes, MSX Basic also uses tokenizing.
~Grauw
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