Re: Liberty BASIC Booster

From	H-Man <Spam@bites.fs>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, alt.lang.basic
Subject	Re: Liberty BASIC Booster
Date	2011-09-13 08:18 -0600
Organization	L&H Custom Computer
Message-ID	<j4nooi$i0b$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:42:22 -0700 (PDT), news@rtrussell.co.uk wrote:

> On Sep 12, 11:02 pm, H-Man <S...@bites.fs> wrote:
>> I assumed, therefore that it was not runtime dependent. Looking into this
>> further everything i see does say it is interpreted so I'm assuning the
>> runtime is part of the self contained .exe.
> 
> That's right.  From the BB4W FAQ: "In traditional terms BBC BASIC is
> an interpreted language; it has many features which are not compatible
> with direct conversion to machine code (e.g. the EVAL function and the
> assembler). BBC BASIC for Windows uses the term compile for the
> process of creating a stand-alone executable file containing a
> compressed form of your BASIC program plus a Run Time Engine to
> execute it. Several modern 'compiled' languages (e.g. Java and
> the .NET suite) use a similar technique".
> 
>> So then, is this a better LB compiler, and is that it's purpose?
> 
> It addresses a number of issues with Liberty BASIC.  For example LB is
> exceptionally slow (even for an interpreter), it generates huge multi-
> file executables (a 'Hello world' program creates ten files totalling
> 2.8 Megabytes) and it has lots of bugs that have gone unfixed for
> years.
> 
>> Does the LB code run under BBC then?
> 
> From the LBB docs: "When you issue the Make Executable command LBB
> creates a single-file standalone executable containing the BBC BASIC
> for Windows run-time engine, the LBLIB emulator and a tokenised/
> compressed version of the translated BASIC program".
> 

Richard,

This is really interesting. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate your taking
time to explain this to me. When I have time I will try to spend some time
with it. Too busy right now.

-- 
HK

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