The result is a system which promotes the use of modern program design techniques, making it an ideal tool for introductory courses in computing and for the development of application systems. It may be used to increase the performance of production programs. Experimental results indicate that most programs execute at least twice as fast using the Optimizer.
Optimized programs function identically to compiled programs.
The same error diagnosis is performed when an optimized program is executed. The size of an optimized file is smaller than the corresponding size of a compiled program. This reduces disk space requirements as well as program load time. Program statements are compiled one at a time as they are entered at the terminal. Error diagnostics are displayed as soon as a problem is evident.