On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:40 PM B 9 hacke...@gmail.com <http://mailto:hacke...@gmail.com> wrote:
By the way, a tokenizer should be able to reduce the file size dramatically > by simply omitting the string after REM statements. Having it remove > vestigial lines completely would be slightly trickier and probably require > a second pass as it'd have to make sure the line was not a target of GOTO > (or any of the other varied ways of referring to line numbers). > Okay, I made a quick and dirty tokenizer that removes comments <https://github.com/hackerb9/tokenize/tree/decomment> and extra white space. It does not do the second pass to remove unneeded lines or anything fancy, like converting ' to REM (which takes up less space). It's not as good as the renumberer used on TSWEEP, but it's close, creating a binary that is only 500 bytes larger. —b9
