[Coco] DECB USRn function?

Mike Huskey mikehsk at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 24 16:34:16 EDT 2006


Mark McDougall wrote:

> It's frustrating because I'm trying to do some fast bit-manipulation in 
> a BASIC program, and I turned to ML to speed things up, only to find 
> that BASIC has no concept of INTEGERS and passing values to/from ML is 
> rather *S*L*O*W* because of the INTCNV/GIVABF routines... :(


I wish I could remember the details, but I remember using strings & 
machine code to use 16bit integers in a program many years ago. I think 
I ripped off a fast integer to floating point routine from somebody else.



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