Hi Daniel, it's not byte-compiled the way for example Java is, it simply has all the keywords replaced by one- or two-byte tokens. Programs are always stored in memory this way - so there is not difference in speed, but tokenised programs load slightly faster. That difference was much more significant on the old hardware for which GW-BASIC was designed.
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Hello, I always wondered about tokenized programs. Is this like a byte compiled version? If so will programs run faster if you save them as tokenized?
Thanks,
Daniel
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Hi Daniel, it's not byte-compiled the way for example Java is, it simply has all the keywords replaced by one- or two-byte tokens. Programs are always stored in memory this way - so there is not difference in speed, but tokenised programs load slightly faster. That difference was much more significant on the old hardware for which GW-BASIC was designed.