[Coco] BASIC09 Compile

[James Jones]

Reasons that come to mind:

   - runb is a sort of shared library but in reverse--if I were feeling
   categorical, I'd say it's a shared colibrary :). It has the common code
   that implements the I-code statements and built-in functions of BASIC09. It
   wasn't until OS-9/68000 that Microware wrote cio, a shared library for C
   standard I/O--is it not practical for the 6809, or under Level 2? I don't
   know, but you'd definitely want a shared BASIC09 library if you were going
   to compile significant BASIC09 code.
   - I suspect compiled I-code would be considerably bigger than the
   I-code, especially if you had to statically link in hunks of what's now in
   runb. That's not a good tradeoff in general, especially under Level 1, and
   the tradeoff varies from program to program--if you're I/O bound, it
   probably doesn't matter.


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 5:10 AM Carlos Camacho <idevgames at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I understand why there isn't  a compiler for BASIC09 but could
> someone explain anyways?
>
> Is there a way to set a program  to run, but not allow the code  to be
> viewed?
>
> Carlos
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