Re: Speed of program execution?

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Subject: Re: Speed of program execution?
From: Jim Paris <jim@KD3BJ.AMPR.ORG>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:38:49 GMT
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damian@newton.prestel.co.uk (Damian Smith) writes:

>On my TI-85 I have nothiced that sometimes when executiong a program
>at can take a while to actual load and begin running.  Then sometimes
>it will pop up instantly?  Does anyone know why this is?  Does anyone
>know any ways of making it always pop up instantly?  I can't seem to
>find what causes this?

the calculator has to tokenize the code that you entered.  it's sorta
like compiling a program.  the first time you run it after editing it or
creating it, it'll take a moment to tokenize, but once that's done, it'll
go fast.

-jim

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