Re: BASIC
- From: Rick D <a8maestro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:24:41 -0500
Payton Byrd wrote:
What BASIC languages are available for the Atari 8-bit systems? I've been doing some benchmarking and am stunned with how poorly the BASIC in the XL ROM performs given the relatively high 1.79 mhz CPU clock.
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Payton Byrd
Homepage - <http://www.paytonbyrd.com>
Blog - <http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/visualbasic/dotnet/>
Hi,
Program speed was never a priority with Atari Basic. There are ways to speed it up, but they are compromises. Remember that its always running in floating point mode, line number "jumps" are mostly tested line
number by line number, all code is pseudo and thus interpreted every time. But the fact you can change even 1 byte in the program and just goto or rerun without any compiling makes programming faster for most
people. To get decent speed, the program has to be compiled. I use Monarch ABC with excellent results. But even it is not truly compiled. MMG is supposed to convert to machine language, but all I have heard is
all of the bugs.
The vast majority of my programming is using Basic XL or assembly.
Rick D.
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