At 05:55 PM 07/23/99 +0200, you wrote:
>30 SECONDS on a K6-233??? Talking about a lacking optimization... ("bwoa,
>the people using this program have an P3 500 MHz anyway" standard
>PC-programmers attitude)
This was about an assembler running under an emulator.
But still 30 seconds is a lot... Does this include disk I/O or something?
I remember compile times of a few seconds (Compass under MSX4PC on P166).
>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 think Compass will have a very hard time to beat WBASS2 on speed. Compass
can handle larger amounts of memory (mapper pages) and in a more flexible
way (multiple mappers). These extra features are bound to create some
overhead.
It's simply not fair to compare compile times of an assembler that can
handle large sources to an assembler that has a 20K source buffer and
therefore never has to do slot switching or even bank switching.
Bye,
Maarten
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