[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

[Wayne Campbell]

I-code is tokenized code that is intepreted by the runtime module runb. By storing the instructions in post-fix notation, interpretation and execution are sped up as they are stack oriented.

Wayne

Fedor Steeman <petrander at gmail.com> wrote:

>>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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>Interesting! But I don't reckon it is like Java, running in its own
>semi-machinecode interpretation engine...
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>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?
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>/Fedor
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>On 14 May 2013 09:54, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:03 PM, George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>> >>Are BASIC09 programs essentially compiled for final execution?
>> >>
>> >>How does it compare in speed to RS-DOS BASIC?
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>> >>Nick
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>> >  I've found the compiled B09 file to be no faster than the uncompiled B09
>> > program.
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>> I believe basic09 "compiles" your text into icode before executing
>> anyway, so they are equivalent?  Wayne would know for sure.
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>> 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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