Re: Java on the Apple2 and C64

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

David Schmenk wrote:

>> Applesoft, often maligned for its incomplete interpretive coding,
>> is actually relatively compact in its code representation--though
>> it pays for it in rutime inefficiencies.  (I occasionally wonder
>> how much faster it would be if variable and statement addresses
>> were "backpatched" into the code during execution, eliminating the
>> painful linear searches to resolve them...)
> 
> I actually thought that was all the Applesoft compilers really did.

I think pre-parsing literal numbers was one more thing they did, right?
Even Apple's own manual warned that number parsing was particularly slow.

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Linards Ticmanis