Compiling if FILEs in DAT section needs attention - is slow... compared to rest of compile

[ironsheep]

Issue being Addressed

Time for assembling a simple PASM-only program is over an order of magnitude worse than flexspin. 540ms vs 25ms, or rather "noticable delay" vs "instant".

It seems the slow compile time is mostly correlated with including large FILEs in a DAT section. So I guess there's some horrible per-byte loop that runs on either the FILE includes or the whole output binary.

Initially reported by Ada, 2024-09-13.

Enhancement

Rewrite the byte loops in the DATA file handling to improve compile performance.

Alternatives

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Additional information

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[Wuerfel21]

The program that I noticed this on:
crapvga-2024-09-17.zip
(Simple VGA driver that I livecoded in like 10 minutes to prove a point - there's a big image file)