Re: Basic compiler

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

finksterj wrote:
> Alex Freed wrote:
>
> > "Guillaume Tello" <houten.van@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
> > news:453b7705$0$5074$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr...
> >
> > > found in a recent post:
> > >
> > > http://beagle.applearchives.com/
> > >
> > > there you'll find the Beagle Compiler with its manual.
> >
> > The problem is that the Beagle Compiler does not generate machine code and
> > requires the compiler itself to be
> > resident to run the "compiled" program, according to the manual.
> >
> > -Alex.
>
>
> It's true the Beagle Compiler requires the COMPILER.SYSTEM (or one of
> the expanded memory versions) to run your compiled programs-although
> the actual COMPILER program is not needed once your programs have been
> compiled to disk.
>
> Generally the Beagle Compiler produces code that runs 10X faster than
> regular Applesoft and the compiled programs are much smaller than the
> original program.

The actual speedup is highly dependent on the nature of the
code being compiled.

If the code does a lot of floating-point arithmetic, the
speedup is much less (since most of the time is spent in
the floating point routines).

-michael

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