Re: Trying to understand HAL
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Re: Trying to understand HAL
e e wrote in article <19970810.182558.9862.11.bike17@juno.com>...
>On Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:31:04 GMT Reinier Zwitserloot
><R.Zwitserloot@BTINTERNET.COM> writes:
>>On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 00:21:07 -0400, e e <bike17@JUNO.COM> wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to understand the point of HAL. What I have gathered so
>>far
>>>is that HAL allows you to take a program written in BASIC, and
>>transfer
>>>it to ASM. Ok, I understand that ASM gives you added features that
>>BASIC
>>>doesn't have, such as gray-scale on the screen, but why in the world
>>>would you want to transfer a BASIC program to ASM? It the same
>>source
>>>code, right? How is it going to be any better in ASM than in BASIC?
It will be 10 to 100 times faster than a BASIC program, depending on what
you're trying to do.
Tom Lake
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