Compiler Speed Trials

[boriel]

Incidentally, Boriel - is the compiler correctly removing all the un-needed run time routines?

I noted that the Hisoft version of BM7 was around 350 bytes, and the ZX BASIC version was almost 1,800 bytes, with -O3 enabled.

I'm not sure if that's a problem or not, given that most of them would be needed for reasonably large programs; but if we're considering an option of a 45 byte overhead for a faster SQR function, for example, then not having the runtime packages we don't need becomes a little more important.

It's OK. Because of the PRINT. Print routine is about 580bytes (ITALIC, BOLD, ATRIBUTES, etc...). But a --use-rom-print is on the way if you needn't ITALIC/BOLD nor speed (I wonder if the PRINT routine could be optimized more, BTW)