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wizzwizz4 on July 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style

I think you could make your lowercase loop shorter – and definitely faster – by jumping into a second loop when inside a string, instead of setting a flag.

photokandy on July 4, 2020 [–]

You’re right! I’ll do that. :-)

I haven’t done a lot of optimization yet-probably lots of things like this. :-)

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