Re: BASIC > ASM

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Subject: Re: BASIC > ASM
From: My name <x@X.X>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:56:20 GMT
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> > True but the Basic interpreter has to interpret each line as it's
executed.
> > If you have a loop that's executed 5000 times, the interpreter has to do
> > 5000 translations of each line in the loop.  A compiler translates the
> > program once and from then on, you run the machine language directly
rather
> > than having it interpreted each time you run it.
>
> False.

Isn't this how it works on the other TI-8x calculators though?

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