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Grogster

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Joined: 31/12/2012
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: 03:48pm 19 Dec 2013
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I thought that comments using the single-quote mark are comments in the code, and as such, are ignored by the MM interpeter. While it is true they are ignored, they gobble up memory in the process.

Lesson: For big progams, you really need to keep TWO copies of the code - one with full comments to help you remember how you did things later, and another one with no comments at all. De-commenting my large menu program has saved me almost 8k of memory in Mode 4!(it had just about every line commented, to help make it easier for me to follow later, when I would have probably forgotten the details, you see)

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shoebuckle
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Joined: 21/01/2012
Location: Australia
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Posted: 06:02pm 19 Dec 2013
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Grogster,
If you need it to run even faster, try my Crunch program in MMLib. It will remove comments for you and compress the code, changing long names to short ones and combining lines where possible to make it even more efficient. Please note that the resulting code is almost unreadable for humans, so don't throw away your original, commented code.
Cheers,
Hugh
 
Grogster

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Posted: 06:48pm 19 Dec 2013
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Sounds good, I will try that on a copy of the code.
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