Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!aurora!barry 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 Article-I.D.: aurora.788 Posted: Tue Jul 14 12:59:10 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 06:20:52 EDT References: <1348@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <2460@husc6.UUCP> <126@jc3b21.UUCP> <2098@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 25 [] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electric Avenue: {dual,seismo,ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!aurora!barry