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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: How magic is the CompileIt?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.033156.6692@reed.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 03:31:56 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug16.033156.6692
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- In article <15AUG199209103159@oregon.uoregon.edu> ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang) writes:
- >I have heard that there is a aaplication that can compile HyperTalk in
- >Hypercard into XCMD to speed up HyperCard.
- >I found a Demo in Sumex-aim. It looks good and when using HyperTalk to do math
- >(FPU), the compiled hypertalk is very fast. (I used a loop of 10000 times to
- >test FPU math, the compiled HyperTalk is about 50 times faster.)
- >I don't know if anyone who has bought this application can tell me how magic in
- I thought HC 2.0 compiled scripts on its first execution of them and
- stashed them in RAM, so why would compileIt be faster? At least, why
- would it be 50 times faster?
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