[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

[Fedor Steeman]

>B09 code executes much, much faster than RS basic code.  It is not
>exactly interpreted, though not exactly compiled 6809 code either.
>Maybe "pre interpreted" would be the word?

Interesting! But I don't reckon it is like Java, running in its own
semi-machinecode interpretation engine...

So would it not be compiled into ML, or interpreted, or consisting of
chunks of pre-made ML modules (thus not as optimized as a ML program can
get)? Is there any other way?

/Fedor





On 14 May 2013 09:54, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:03 PM, George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
> wrote:
> > Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >>Are BASIC09 programs essentially compiled for final execution?
> >>
> >>How does it compare in speed to RS-DOS BASIC?
> >>
> >>Nick
> >>
> >
> >  I've found the compiled B09 file to be no faster than the uncompiled B09
> > program.
>
> I believe basic09 "compiles" your text into icode before executing
> anyway, so they are equivalent?  Wayne would know for sure.
>
> B09 code executes much, much faster than RS basic code.  It is not
> exactly interpreted, though not exactly compiled 6809 code either.
> Maybe "pre interpreted" would be the word?
>
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