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From: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How fast is AmigaBasic?
Message-ID: <788@aurora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 12:59:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 12:59:10 1987
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	One small correction to Hedley's remarks on Absoft's ac-basic
compiler:

In article <2098@cbmvax.UUCP>, hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) writes:
>	One other thing, the compiler requires a run time library be
>present on the WORKBENCH disk. This is annoying, but the speed increase
>makes it worth it. 

	This is optional. You can either have small executables by
compiling them without the run-time library being part of them, in
which case the run-time library must be present elsewhere on the disk,
or you can compile them stand-alone. In that mode the run-time library
is contained in the executable. This makes the program quite large,
but means it runs without help.
	I haven't yet put the compiler to serious use, but my first
impressions are good. It seems very compatable with the interpreter,
much more so than the BASIC compiler-interpreter twins I've used in
the past on CP/M and Apple DOS.

						Kenn Barry
						NASA-Ames Research Center
						Moffett Field, CA
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