Re: Adding a Crystal to a WP34s - speed Message #5 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 24 June 2011, 3:19 a.m., in response to message #4 by Paul Dale
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Want to try the eight queens benchmark with a crystal to improve the timings a bit :-)
Strange, I just get 2.1 and 2.4 seconds. Same result as yours.
Thinking twice it's not so strange any more: If you did use TICKS to time the benchmark, you will have got the same results as the ticker runs slower at the very same rate as the rest of the machine. To do real world timing, you need to run the benchmark 10 times and time it with a stop watch.
CLRREG is a bad command. It spoils automatic timing. I had to modify the benchmark to store TICKS in A just after the CLRREG so that LBL A; XEQ '8QN'; RCL- A; RTN could do the timing.
A command to just clear a range of registers would be useful. If it takes its limits from X it will be hard to make it work in integer mode. You need to introduce some scaling there.
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