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TODO
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Memory Block Operations integrated in language?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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list,string memory block operations?
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- list operations (whole list, individual element)
operations: set, get, copy (from another list with the same length), shift-N(left,right), rotate-N(left,right)
clear (set whole list to the given value, default 0)
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- list operations ofcourse work identical on vars and on memory mapped vars of these types.
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- strings: identical operations as on lists.
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these should call optimized pieces of assembly code, so they run as fast as possible
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For now, we have the ``memcopy``, ``memset`` and ``strlen`` builtin functions.
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More optimizations
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Add more compiler optimizations to the existing ones.
- on the language AST level
- on the final assembly source level
- can the parameter passing to subroutines be optimized to avoid copying?
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- working subroutine inlining (taking care of vars and identifier refs to them)
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Also some library routines and code patterns could perhaps be optimized further
Eval stack redesign? (lot of work)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The eval stack is now a split lsb/msb stack using X as the stackpointer.
Is it easier/faster to just use a single page unsplit stack?
It could then even be moved into the zeropage to greatly reduce code size and slowness.
Or just move the LSB portion into a slab of the zeropage.
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Allocate a fixed word in ZP that is the TOS so we can always operate on TOS directly
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without having to to index into the stack?
Misc
^^^^
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Add sort() function that can sort an array (ascending and descending)
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Several ideas were discussed on my reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/alhj59/creating_a_programming_language_and_cross/