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- From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: How magic is the CompileIt?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.004656.7727@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:46:56 GMT
- References: <15AUG199209103159@oregon.uoregon.edu> <1992Aug16.033156.6692@reed.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug16.033156.6692@reed.edu>, sharvy@reed.edu (V Headshape) writes:
- >
- > 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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- Well now compile is a marketing term, to be honest HyperCard 2.x does not
- compile anything. What it does do is tokenize scripts. This greatly reduces
- the amount of time required to parse out the command lines by the interperter.
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- CompileIt actually generates 680x0 microcode.
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- > --
- > Liberate the Weirdoes and You Liberate the Squares
- >
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- Jer,
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