Is the FastPlot library really going to be faster than a compiled PLOT instruction? Since you've optimised your own PRINT implementation, I would assume that PLOT and DRAW compile to pretty lean machine code do they not? I did some very basic testing comparison of filling using DRAW commands versus looping through FastPlots instead and it seemed roughly the same. Is it perhaps that some libraries are old, and now the compiler is as good with native commands in terms of performance?

Is it normal that the entire screen scrolls every time I print at line 22 - not even filling the line? Surely it should behave like the other lines, no? Or else it's not much of an improvement over Sinclair BASIC's PRINT #0; AT 1,0;

Is it a good idea to use -O3? I know typically there are trade-offs - like loop unrolling can make code bigger in order to become faster. Is there much of a difference for ZX Basic between -O2 and -O3? Am I better off sticking to the default -O2 since it's more tried and tested?
Or since I'm not yet running into memory limits should I use -O3 while I can?

Every time I compile I get a big wall of text of warnings about unused variables and functions in libraries that are included in my program (input.bas, attr.bas and its own includes, HRPrint.bas, fastTrig.bas). Could such warnings for libraries be muted by default perhaps and make them elective for library debugging, or at least allow me to exclude them in my build script? I didn't write these pieces of code, so I'm not interested in these warnings. However if I mute all warnings then I could miss an issue with my own code. Even with warnings enabled I have missed many genuine warnings because they were drowned out by the noise (variable unused is the classic one - when a name has been mistyped or the capitalisation is wrong somewhere in the listing).

If I have multiple attribute changes on a single line, the last one is ignored on exit from a SUB.
Consider this example which exposes the problem:

Hi Boriel,

I notice that I cannot do the following:

Hi all,

I have created a syntax highlighter for ZX BASIC for the editor Sublime Text. It's an excellent code editor which, like ZX BASIC itself, is available for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.

Enjoy!

https://github.com/patters-syno/zx-basic-syntax

What is the recommended way to reset an array's contents? Do we have to run a FOR loop from 0 TO UBOUND and clear it element by element, or is there a neater way?
I see that the following doesn't work:

I have a Sinclair BASIC loader for my game which will CLEAR 32767, load a SCREEN$, LOAD ""CODE, and finally RANDOMIZE USR 32678. I have assembled the loader and the SCREEN$ into a TAP file - but how to I get zxbc.py to append its output to this TAP file? I can't seem to get it to work.

When I try:

Hi,

I have been frequently referring to the ZX Basic documentation while I have been programming. I find that at random (but multiple times a day) the search feature on the wiki returns no results for a short period which is quite frustrating. It's happened again right now. During though outages, luckily I can consult the markdown files on GitHub. However, they don't have a search function, which is useful so I do prefer the wiki.

I also notice that the boriel.com landing site frequently drops off the Internet late at night too. Can you perhaps set up some kind of host monitoring to determine just how big a problem this is, or maybe raise a support ticket with the webhost?

Thanks,

Patters