Quote from: Qwerty.55 on November 04, 2010, 05:29:44 pm

Plus the various holes in RAM that the OS has, if you feel like going into Assembly.

You don't need to use assembly, as Axe is already capable of accessing any addressable RAM area. A good suggestion would be _E8000, which has 256 bytes of space you can uses as temporary RAM.

random question: how many bytes is a name string? is the appv token 1 byte? are lower case letters 2 bytes still?

so for example: how large is this name string: "appvAbcDE"

and also: can you open a file 'over' another file

ie if you had appvar 1 open in Y1, can you call GetCalc(Str2,Y1) and have the appvar pointed to in Str2 now open as Y1?

Quote from: squidgetx on November 07, 2010, 06:06:45 pm

random question: how many bytes is a name string? is the appv token 1 byte? are lower case letters 2 bytes still?

Name string is however many bytes you make it, just like any other string. The appv char is two bytes: one for the var type (appvar), one for the actual token. And all lowercase letters are one byte unless you convert them individually with ^T.

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.Inefficient
If (A=3 or (A=5) or (A=20) or (A=28) or (A=61))
.Some code
End

.Efficient
If A
  If inData(A,Data(3,5,20,28,61,0))
  .Some code
  End
End
This is probably unnoticeable slower, but its much smaller and the routine is a subroutine so using it more than once in your program will definitely be a large size optimization.

actually smaller than a single equality check

Bottom line:

• 1 equality check: !If VAR-CONST
• 2+ equality checks: If inData(VAR,Data(CONST,CONST,...))