At 02:09 PM 07/23/99 -0300, you wrote:
> No, it's not really so big. And not takes so much time. (-: But it is
>"compressed", and takes a lot of time, more than normal programs.
What do you mean by "compressed"?
>>Compass is, exept for WBASS, the fastest assembler ever made on MSX. And if
>>they would tokenize the code, then it would be... Whow.
>
> I don't get the idea... How to tokenize ASM? Get an hex editor and you do
>not even need to assembly it!
Tokenizing is the first step of compilation. But if you have an integrated
editor + compiler, it's possible to store the source in tokenized
representation instead of ASCII. There are two advantages:
1. it takes less space
2. it takes less time to compile
And tokenizing one line at a time during editing is only a very small
overhead. It may be slow to load ASCII files though, that would require a
lot of tokenizing.
Bye,
Maarten
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