Go Mummy - 7-Jul 2020 [devlog/go-mummy]

1 · Remy Sharp · July 7, 2020, midnight
This most recent round of development has been dedicated to squashing out bugs and investing in performance optimisations. What's particularly fun about NextBASIC is that it's so close to the metal (as it were) - NextBASIC -> interpreter -> machine code - that it has a heavy hand in the code design that I work with. I'm used to JavaScript which goes through part compile, part interpreted along with a lot of JIT'ting and hot path optimisation. No such pleasantries with NextBASIC. A simple example...