Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
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Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
Yes. The ti-85, and 86 both tokenize BASIC programs b4 they run them...Not to
make them necessarily smaller, but help the OS "understand" the program better
at run-time, thus making it faster once execution begins. Any time you press
"Enter" in the OS, the calculator tokenizes the commands that you gave it,
even if you just say 1+1 [ENTER], it will still tokenize that line....This is
why basic mathematic functions execute faster on the 82/83 OS....and is also
why it takes a LONG time to do things like 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
[ENTER], while on an 82/83 it takes almost the same amount of time as 1+1
[ENTER].
I have made programs that almost double in size after tokenization...It's
normal.
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