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knz42 on May 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

> This experience taught me the difference between source code and machine code.

Ironically the way QuickBasic works is that it concatenates the BASIC interpreter with a copy of your .BAS file to form the .EXE file. There is no machine code generated.

ido on May 27, 2018 [–]

Then why was the compiled exe faster than running the program in the interpreter?

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