Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
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Re: A86: Compiling? (not in asm)
I hope this isn't too far off subject. ;-)
This would seem to make the 82/83 better than the 85/86, which is not the
case. On the 85/86, everything is more integrated. Ever tried to write a
basic program on the homescreen? My friend found this during a boring
precalc class. You could write an entire basic program from the
homescreen, lables included. This is not possible on the 82/83, because
they do not tokenize. On those, you cannot even execute a single basic
command from the homescreen (on the 82, you can't even get one there,
because it has no catalog).
At 04:06 PM 7/24/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Yes. The ti-85, and 86 both tokenize BASIC programs b4 they run
them...Not to
>make them necessarily smaller, but help the OS "understand" the program
better
>at run-time, thus making it faster once execution begins. Any time you press
>"Enter" in the OS, the calculator tokenizes the commands that you gave it,
>even if you just say 1+1 [ENTER], it will still tokenize that line....This is
>why basic mathematic functions execute faster on the 82/83 OS....and is also
>why it takes a LONG time to do things like 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
>[ENTER], while on an 82/83 it takes almost the same amount of time as 1+1
>[ENTER].
>
>I have made programs that almost double in size after tokenization...It's
>normal.
>
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