Re: Q:prg slowing down-why?


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Re: Q:prg slowing down-why?



On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Daniel Sczepansky wrote:


> I got my Ti-85 a few weeks back. I started programming a thinking game
> and recgnized, that the whole game gets permanently slower. I couldn't
> find a bug and that's why I ask you, whether this has happended to
> others. The game is in Ti-Basic and I don't have a link cable yet.
> Please tell me how I can fix that.


if you have blocks (for...end, while...end, etc) and exit them in the middle
with a goto, that takes up a little memory that is not freed until your program
exits, and the less memory, the slower a TI-basic program goes.


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