Strict Basic to speed up calcs?

LuxenD · Posted: 13 Nov 2012 01:23:20 pm Post subject: Strict Basic to speed up calcs?

discussing the slowness of Basic and other things over SAX one afternoon, i had an epiffany! What if you could get a small speed boost by not modifying codesn for speed?

Instead of this...

elfprince13 · Posted: 13 Nov 2012 01:35:50 pm Post subject:

http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/timings#toc13
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LuxenD · Posted: 13 Nov 2012 02:47:05 pm Post subject:

well, so it does. thanks elfprince.

now that is settled, it's likely that the tios is still performing small checks to see if those optimisations still exist. so, say you were to install a hook on running a program that youve modified for strict (what im calling unoptimized code).
you could have the hook skip those check codes, to speed up the program a little bit more.
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KermMartian · Posted: 13 Nov 2012 10:54:07 pm Post subject:

Well, either way it checks if the next character is another operator or operand, or the start of a new command, so there's no way to optimize the parser further. For example, if you read L1(A, there's no way to know if you'll get a newline next, or a +1, or a )+1, or anything else.
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Kllrnohj · $/=\$ PH34R |\/|3 Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 8189

It's not checking for these optimizations, though - it's just using the newline character as a hard terminate for any open groupings.
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DJ_O · Posted: 14 Nov 2012 11:44:46 pm Post subject:

I think the biggest case of slowdown due to omitting ) is false If instrunctions in For( loops, seen in elf's link.

Also I think that one caused a permanent slowdown in some cases, although that was probably due to me using ASM libs or having a very large amount of sub-programs and low amount of RAM and archive. I had that happen when making Illusiat 13 and the slowdown would go away when pressing ON.
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cvsoft · Posted: 15 Nov 2012 12:06:51 am Post subject:

KermMartian · Posted: 15 Nov 2012 12:45:29 am Post subject:

CVSoft, indeed; the biggest savings is the space savings from omitted closing characters. As you pointed out, though, and as I and Kllrnohj explained, it would be no faster to assume the optimizations were in place (nor in fact feasible).
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techboy6601 · Member Joined: 31 Jan 2012 Posts: 124

I can see what you mean, but I'm afraid your wrong, as has been said before. Although, even if these checks were in place, you probably wouldn't even notice the change unless you were doing some really freaky stuff.

All things considered, omitting these characters helps not only in space saving but also increasing speed.
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