Re: BASIC > ASM

Re: BASIC > ASM

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• Subject: Re: BASIC > ASM
• From: Tom Lake <tomlake@SLIC.COM>
• Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:13:30 -0400
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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.
>

Not false at all.  A true interpreter works the way I described.  Even if it
tokenizes the program only once, it still has to interpret (NOT parse!) each
line of code once for each time in the loop.

Tom Lake
ICQ #25589135

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• Re: BASIC > ASM
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