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WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - iceman - 10-12-2014 11:20 PM
I notice the WP-34S Benchmark takes about 5 seconds, which is longer than shown in Xerxes' article
Has anyone else noticed this?
This is the code, starting at program location 1
I include that .dat file of this program from the emulator for verification
Code:
WP-34S
--------
001: LBL B
002: CLREG
003: 8
004: STO 11
005: RCL 11
006: x=? 00
007: SKIP 22
008: INC 00
009: STO ->00
010: INC 10
011: RCL 00
012: STO 09
013: DEC 09
014: RCL 09
015: x=0?
016: BACK 11
017: RCL ->00
018: RCL- ->09
019: x=0?
020: SKIP 05
021: ABS
022: RCL 00
023: RCL- 09
024: x<>? Y
025: BACK 12
026: DSZ ->00
027: BACK 17
028: DSZ 00
029: BACK 03
030: RCL 10
031: RTNRE: WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - Paul Dale - 10-12-2014 11:35 PM
What firmware revision are you running?
Those results are for v2 firmware which is quite a bit faster than v3 -- we needed more bytes and finding them cost time.
- Pauli
RE: WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - iceman - 10-12-2014 11:51 PM
Thanks very much for the quick reply Pauli. That would explain it. I am running 34S 3.3T Build 3678.
RE: WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - patrice - 10-21-2014 12:10 AM
Hi Paul,
a little question.
Can you tell me if the 34S have functions to convert a program from LBL/GTO to BACK/SKIP and reverse ?
RE: WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - Paul Dale - 10-21-2014 12:56 AM
(10-21-2014 12:10 AM)patrice Wrote: Can you tell me if the 34S have functions to convert a program from LBL/GTO to BACK/SKIP and reverse ?
There is no capability to do this on the device.
There is a stand alone assembler written in Perl that handles this for us for internal code and libraries, although not by converting from one to the other as such. The assembler has the ability to automatically generate both styles of branch based on the distance to be jumped. You can, of course, force it to use one or the other.
Use LBL / GTO unless you're working on a challenge to minimise the number of steps. In that case, use LBL / GTO until everything else is minimised and then convert. BACK / SKIP make for unmaintainable code.
- Pauli
RE: WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long - patrice - 10-21-2014 12:24 PM
(10-21-2014 12:56 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:Too bad(10-21-2014 12:10 AM)patrice Wrote: Can you tell me if the 34S have functions to convert a program from LBL/GTO to BACK/SKIP and reverse ?There is no capability to do this on the device.
- Pauli
Would have been nice to be able to switch directly on the device.