I would imagine it's the same thing. It's going by top-level statement. The backward jump is just to keep track of which top-level statement it has read so far.

I would imagine it's the same thing. It's going by top-level statement. The backward jump is just to keep track of which top-level statement it has read so far. It's not about being positioned on what it's currently running. > painstakingly executing it in a way that doesn't require a buffer. I don't understand why people keep saying that. There's a buffer of 64 bytes. You mean in a way that doesn't require slurping the file. It avoids slurping precisely by buffering.