86 Speed

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Subject: 86 Speed
From: "James D. Yopp" <YOPP_J@popmail.firn.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 22:26:42 -0400
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Reply-To: "James D. Yopp" <YOPP_J@popmail.firn.edu>

Well, I broke out the stopwatch and wrote an asm benchmarking program for the
86, and an identical counterpart for ZShell. Both copies were precompiled. Here
are the results (who's going to serve me my foot?)
3x 85 w/GameWiz max. slowdown              5:54.43
3x 85 (no GameWiz)                         2:44.78
TI-86                                      7:26.50

This tells us two things:
The 86 should run at approx. 100-110% of a normal 85, although it performs 60%
in TI-Basic (37% of a 3x as opposed to 19%).
Jimmy Mardell needs to rewrite game wizard to slow down turbo calcs a LOT more.

James Yopp

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