Re: A86: Reader
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Re: A86: Reader
Joseph Gaffney wrote:
>
> At 05:14 PM 9/15/97 -0400, MTNBIKE560@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 97-09-14 21:19:06 EDT, you write:
> >
> ><< speaking of tibasic being slow, has anyone thought of maybe an
> > interpreter that can execute inline asm? that would be really useful for
> > doing simple routines in tibasic, that are hard in asm
> > >>
> >
> >yeah..l was thinking of something along the lines of that. What is the main
> >reason for TI-Basic being slow? is it error checking or something?
>
> It is because it is an interpreted language.
>
While that is true, it's not the WHOLE story. Accually, I'd say that
both reasons are correct. Take Quickbasic vs/ C++ in the PC world. You
can compile both, but the C++ version will whip circles around the QB
version. So, error checking and such also have a large impact.
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