2 Jan
2007
2 Jan
'07
11:22 a.m.
>1 A=61456:B=61441:C=61457:D=1
>2 WAIT A,D,D:POKE B,PEEK(C):GOTO 2
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
As Lee shows, not having to interpret the numbers each time
should speed things up. Reading decimal numbers requires
division. That is just about the slowest thing the computer can
do. If the values are stored in variables, they are already converted
to a computer friendly format.
I'm coming in late on this discusssion, and I don't even know what machine
we're talking about.
1) Many versions of basic use single precision floating point as the
default variable type! Explicitly declaring A,B,C,D to be integer might
make a significant performance change.
2) Any particular reason to not do it in machine language?