The interpreter is ROM overhead. In a study we did here in the early 90's we found that
there were very few cases where the resulting hybrid application would require less ROM
in real applications except for those with a lot of multibyte or float data types.

w..


Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> While we're at it, and two compiler writers are discussing about useful
> features, John Payson came up with an interesting idea in the Htsoft forum
> http://www.htsoft.com/forum/all/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/15352/an/0/page/0#15352
>
> Basically, it is a compiler that can generate both compiled code (fast) and
> interpreted (small) code.


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