JBasic 1.6-5 introduces incremental improvements

PERFORMANCE

This release improves performance 10-20% over the previous release for typical programs by improving internal data structure management significantly.

FEATURES

A major element of this sub-release is continued support for GW-BASIC and related dialects. For example, the addition of the STOP and END statements, as well as CLOSE semantics that close all open files where added to aid in porting other programs, as well as numerous new runtime language functions.

For programs that require it, GOTO and GOSUB, as well as a short-form IF..THEN statement support line numbers, and the RENUMBER command now updates line number references.

DOCUMENTATION

The online users guide has been revised significantly, and now includes an "internals" section that starts to describe the architecture and developer-centric functions in JBasic.

BUG FIXES

Numerous bugs in expression handling, program management, and parsing were fixed.

Enjoy!