[Coco] [Color Computer] Question about BASIC coding guidelines

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 23:39:59 EDT 2008


On 10/29/08, James Diffendaffer wrote:
> ...
>
> There is one other important detail Darren left out.  Variables are
> searched from start to end of the variable storage area so you want to
> declare most used or time critical variables first.  Faster BASIC and
> Other Mysteries or some similar book detailed this.
>
> ...

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Good point James. Declaring frequently used variables early could
definitely improve performance, especially for variables accessed
repeatedly in loops.

Darren



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