compiled or not?

[ji3m]

Forward function declarations are not a problem. I just wish it were also true for
variables as well.

But my main point is a second pass is not required to remove string lookups in a single prgram file.
It just requires object to keep an index into the file local symbol table and an indirect call to the address of that symbol (code or variable) at runtime. The same is tru for local variables although not so important timewise.

In my rpl implementation ( which is built on ppl) all references are through indices into lists. What i can't overcome, however, is the huge time spent by ppl in finding the target function or variable.

Access time appears to be significantly larger than code execution. Most of my code is small routines ( the object prolog handlers ala rpl) so most of the time is gettig there.

So performance drops from megahz to less than a khz. Pretty slow.