Re: A86: Re: Re: [OT] A TI compiler - Why not?
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Re: A86: Re: Re: [OT] A TI compiler - Why not?
Ah, that would be a time to use asm :) I wasn't meaning that kind of stuff,
I meant more like simple formula programs and such, involving the use of
solver and the like. Complicated programs like this would greatly benefit
from the use of asm. The reason this is so slow, is because you have no way
to efficiently store the digits. Each must either be extracted each time
using slow floating point division, or must be stored as a float in a list.
In asm, the digits could be stored as a string and easily searched using
standard string comparison routines.
Btw, please refrain from using inappropriate language on the list. That
benefits no one.
> Basic is great as far as it goes, but it can be SLOW!
> Even when doing math stuff. I wrote a program to find
> the number of decimal places before 1/n either starts
> repeating or terminates, and when n got up into the
> hundreds, the program would sometimes have to search
> through a 100+ list. This is just too F*****G slow. I
> when finding the values when n was 100-150, I would
> turn down my contrast and wait about half an hour
> before it was done. It is stuff like that, where you
> don't have to use really complicated computations, but
> stuff that would be difficult to do in ASM, and a lot
> of them, that's where an intermediate language would
> fit.
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