Re: [cc65] C64 fast-loader suggestion?

From: <silverdr1wfmh.org.pl>
Date: 2011-12-14 15:12:20
On 2011-12-14, at 14:13, Gábor Lénárt wrote:

> 2. fastloaders usually accelerates LOAD not CHRIN (however I can be wrong
>   here: as 'file' $ is not a real one, but created by the drive as a
>   "virtual" file containing the directory as a BASIC-like program, maybe
>   fastloaders can't accelerate the loading of $: am I wrong here?)

It depends. Good, especially hardware supported speeders DO accelerate LOAD, CHRIN reads and "$" directory reading. Still - as I wrote earlier - in any case LOAD is always faster. So, yes this can be sped up but generally it is not so important. The amount of data when reading a directory is small and when output directly to the screen, it may even be a sort of advantage when the speed of the output gives you more time to read it ;-)

> Sorry, it's BASIN not CHRIN, btw :)

Of course not :-P ;-)

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