[Coco] Tokenized Basic

[Mathieu Bouchard]

That's only one of the reasons. Memory was tight back then, but the biggest 
difference it made was speed, because it didn't have to read and understand what 
is "F" "O" "R" or "T" "H" "E" "N" every time it encountered those words. This 
still is slower than executing bytecode or an AST, but requires one less string 
search loop in a part of ColorBASIC that has a large impact on execution speed.


Le 2017-03-14 à 17:07:00, Dave Philipsen a écrit :

> The BASIC program becomes tokenized to save memory space in the 
> computer.  You would be unaware that it has happened.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 3/14/2017 4:55 PM, William Mikrut wrote:
>> So I have seen this topic fly by a few times.  I have also located a list
>> of tokens that reference basic command (could even see them in the
>> unravelled series).
>>
>> My question... does one 'write' tokenized basic... or does a basic program
>> become tokenized?
>>
>> Either way... how does one 'execute' tokenized Basic?

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