Minor update to Blitz 2 (no splash screen + slightly faster code)

[earok]

If you're still using Blitz2, I've done a really small update for the Blitz2 executable alone. Source and binary is on github

https://github.com/earok/chocolate_blitzbasic2

* No more splash screen
* MOVE.L opcodes are swapped out with MOVEQ.s where possible for a slightly smaller and faster output executable (there might be other places where this optimization needs to be done)


I was asked to look into making it so you can compile from the command line as part of a batch process, I haven't quite figured that out yet.

[MickGyver]

Cool, thanks for that!

[earok]

You're welcome MickGyver

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New minor update to chocolate blitzbasic2 that was suggested on GitHub, word and byte operations use the same MoveQ fix that long operations did (I did a quick test and it reduced the size of the Scorpion Engine exe by another 2%)

[Honitos]

Cool. You did it already?
I am going to implement it in AB3 aswell!

[aNdy/AL/COS]

Thanks! Will take a look!

[earok]

@honitos Excellent!

Do feel free to make any other suggestions for possible improvements!

You're welcome @andy !

[earok]

Did one more update - JSRs to local functions are replaced by BSR.w and BSR.s where applicable.

I didn't find that there was much of an improvement, but it did shrink Scorpion Engine by another 1%

[earok]

New update to Chocolate Blitz Basic:

https://github.com/earok/chocolate_blitzbasic2

* Includes Chocolate TED (no longer just the compiler)
* New menu option to compile and quit (Right Amiga+/), which does:
- Compiles to the last saved executable path (you'll need to save your xtra file first)
- Ensures that debug mode is turned off when you compile (no need to manually turn this off if you have debugger turned on by default)
- Quits to workbench after the compile is complete (which should be handy if you've got a scripted build process, eg using third party tools to crunch or compress afterwards)

Next step might be looking at making it so that the new menu command can be triggered from the command line, so that compilation can be fully automated.

(Edit: just checked in a fix, I accidentally left in some test code that broke the original save function, oops)

[peceha]

Hi earok,

I downloaded and replaced 2 files: blitz+ted.
But whenever I choose "small fonts" from menu>defaults and click OK I get GURU ending with ..08

Snoopdos shows nothing at all.
Is there anything else needed ?

Thanks

[earok]

Apologies - I didn't actually know about the small fonts option before - but it doesn't seem to crash at my end when I try it, so I'm not sure what can be done to fix it.

[Szafirek]

Hi

Can you add in TED autosave source before compiling?

[Daedalus]

That's an option in PED from AmiBlitz 3, might be nice as an option in older releases too... You need to be careful with it though - if your source compiles quickly enough and crashes, it can corrupt the save operation and you end up with no source code instead of old source code.