[TI BASIC] Optimizing

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Fri 08 Apr, 2005 8:47 pm

to fix that code, and stop complaining about how basic is limited (which I am, of course, prepared to argue against indefinitely in another topic)

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Repeat Ans 
GetKey->K
End 
Y+(Ans=26)-(Ans=24->Y 
X+(K=34)-(K=25->X

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 08 Apr, 2005 8:56 pm

I'm not complaining about BASIC is limited I'm just saying that we dont have enough vars

Luthar · Post by **Luthar** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 1:27 am

Kevin wrote:I'm not complaining about BASIC is limited I'm just saying that we dont have enough vars

ain't that the truth...and making an rpg in BASIC is a pain...*mutters* I'll be posting my code up here soon to see if anyone has any suggestions for optimizing...because I KNOW it sucks..lol

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 2:42 pm

Assembly has only 7 bytes' worth of registers that you can use.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:13 pm

It's a bit more than that, closer to 20. Still it's about the same size as 3 TIOS real vars.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:30 pm

Still, if you ever feel like you're running out of variables in Basic, then Asm is not for you.

Gambit · Post by **Gambit** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 5:15 am

DarkerLine wrote:Still, if you ever feel like you're running out of variables in Basic, then Asm is not for you.

Huh? If you're running out of variables in BASIC, then shouldn't you turn to assembly?

You can have as many "variables" as you want in assembly (RAM permitting)

Post by **DarkAuron** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 5:51 am

I think it was a joke.. if not, I pity his ignorance

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 7:47 am

Well storing stuff in ram for safekeeping and being able to perform operations with data in asm are 2 different things. Sure you can store 'variables' but you can only perform operations with the data using the registers. And also considering that this is an ACC based system ...

You can store as much stuff in memory as you want in basic too ... just keep stuff in lists etc.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 5:24 pm

tr1p1ea wrote:You can store as much stuff in memory as you want in basic too ... just keep stuff in lists etc.

Exactly. And in my opinion this is way simpler than it is in assembly.

I've never run out of variables in Basic though...

Post by **DarkAuron** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 5:47 pm

I've still got about 5-6 variables left to use (out of the A-Z, theta set) for in-game play in Tankies. So yeah, no problems there.. no list use except for option lookup.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Sun 24 Apr, 2005 6:25 pm

There's also the finance variables, stat vars if you can figure out how to store to them (it's complicated), unused window boundaries (Tmin, Tmax, thetamin, thetamax, etc.), even USED window boundaries if you don't use the graph screen (just remember to fix them afterwards), table variables (TblInput is a 7-element list), etc.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Mon 25 Apr, 2005 9:56 pm

If you run out of vars you can always use lists, which only RAM limits the number of.

Post by **kv83** » Mon 25 Apr, 2005 10:33 pm

This deserves a sticky

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 25 Apr, 2005 11:56 pm

Cool, along with the ASM optimising thread