Atari BASIC's tokenization scheme should have made it faster than others. But it suffered from some poor implementation details which made it perform quite poor

Atari BASIC's tokenization scheme should have made it faster than others. But it suffered from some poor implementation details which made it perform quite poorly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_BASIC#Performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_BASIC#Performance