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drmortalwombat
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drmortalwombat
3y ago
This was my assumption as well, when I started this compiler. It just did not play out this way with most code that I have written for it. The native code optimizer is able to reduce 16bit arithmetic to 8bit in many cases, where it can pr
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drmortalwombat
3y ago
It turned out that for most cases, there is no gain by using an interpreter. Most code that does make any sense on a C64/6502 is compiled into a smaller and faster native version. For some code e.g. heavy floating point or many point