03-18-2010, 09:49 AM
Ah ha! Clever stuff.
This is all leaning towards my conviction that ZX Basic will utterly out awesome any of the older compilers, by virtue of having LOTS of memory and cpu time to do such optimizations...
That said... I have a fast computer. Why does Footy take 3 minutes to compile?? It seems a long time to make 14K of code...
Am I wrong to worry that it takes so long?
The biggest issue is that line numbers can't be trusted (there's a problem with asm blocks and getting the line number right. There really is.), and error messages are... not so helpful. "Unexpected end of file" tells me there's an unclosed bracket, or a missed END IF or END SUB out there.... but no clue where it could be. As a result, coding starts to get slower, because I can't write more than about 3 lines of code without recompiling, in case there's a problem - I need to know where. If I only wrote a tiny amount of code, it must be there.
I forgot to say - even though it takes 3 minutes - it compiles PERFECTLY with -O3!!! WOOOO! Very very well done, Boriel.
This is all leaning towards my conviction that ZX Basic will utterly out awesome any of the older compilers, by virtue of having LOTS of memory and cpu time to do such optimizations...
That said... I have a fast computer. Why does Footy take 3 minutes to compile?? It seems a long time to make 14K of code...
Am I wrong to worry that it takes so long?
The biggest issue is that line numbers can't be trusted (there's a problem with asm blocks and getting the line number right. There really is.), and error messages are... not so helpful. "Unexpected end of file" tells me there's an unclosed bracket, or a missed END IF or END SUB out there.... but no clue where it could be. As a result, coding starts to get slower, because I can't write more than about 3 lines of code without recompiling, in case there's a problem - I need to know where. If I only wrote a tiny amount of code, it must be there.
I forgot to say - even though it takes 3 minutes - it compiles PERFECTLY with -O3!!! WOOOO! Very very well done, Boriel.