Re: BASIC > ASM

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Subject: Re: BASIC > ASM
From: Tom Lake <tomlake@SLIC.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:56:48 -0400
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Reply-To: Tom Lake <tomlake@SLIC.COM>
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>Everything that actually runs on the computer is machine language.  Basic
is
>running in machine language.  Machine language instructions have a 1 to 1
>correspondance with ASM.  They're essentially the same thing.
>
>So the program that translates Basic to ASM is the basic interpretter.


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.

Tom Lake
ICQ #25589135

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