Posted By
Csabo
on 2018-11-19
15:08:32
|  A piece of news we missed
About a year and a half ago Litwr made a rather low-key announcement on the forum. He let us know that he developed a Windows program which is essentially a replacement or a rival to Austrospeed Compiler. CBCCWIF (or Commodore +4 Basic Cross Compiler with Italian flavor) takes your BASIC program file and produces an ASM version, which can then be assembled. Although we don't have official benchmarks, the resulting machine-language program files appear to be much faster than what Austro produces.
Today we rectified our mistake of not adding this program to our list of tools. Sorry about that! You can now find it here, with a link to the official homepage for more info. Anyone developing BASIC games should give it a try, and be sure to send your feedback to the author.
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Posted By
SVS
on 2018-11-19
15:09:25
 | Re: A piece of news we missed
I've performed some tests in order to know the power of this masterpiece SW.
The timing results of executing a simple BASIC program with FOR...NEXT, ARRAYS and string functions are the following:
CBCCWIF: 14%
AUSTROSPEED: 34%
(Standard BASIC 100%)
This means that you can obtain a code running 2.4 times faster than an Austrospeed compiled code, and 7.1 times faster than the standard interpreter speed.
Not too bad!!! 
Respects, master Litwr.
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Posted By
Mad
on 2018-11-19
16:33:00
| Re: A piece of news we missed
Wow.. Pretty good news.. Especially for the basic game guys. You know who is meant!! 
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Posted By
George
on 2018-11-19
16:45:22
 | Re: A piece of news we missed
Indeed very interesting...
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Posted By
Stinaris
on 2018-11-19
16:52:10
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Impressive speed increase.
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