Keystroke Programming: Labels vs. Line Numbers

[Paul Dale]

(11-06-2014 09:28 PM)patrice Wrote:  Would be nice to have the same functionality on the wp-34s

The 34S has variable length instructions so we can't just jump to an absolute address -- we'd have to search for the address from the beginning of program memory. This would almost always be slower than using a label.

Converting to BACK/SKIP is also a non-gain mostly. SKIP would be no faster since we're parsing each instruction skipped over. BACK might be a little faster but, I doubt it would be a noticeable difference in practice due to all the other overheads.

If you are so wedded to the idea of this conversion, download the 34S source code and implement it yourself I am not going to since I don't see any utility in this operation. If I ever want a program with BACK/SKIP, which is rare, I use the assembler to generate the code for me.


- Pauli