New G2 HP Prime

[Anders]

(08-30-2018 05:45 PM)Albert Chan Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 04:56 PM)xerxes Wrote:  Very interesting, 1 loop with global vars took 1.158 seconds and 10 loops with local vars only 0.855.

Are you sure the numbers are right ? Seems off by a decimal point ...

Might be better to revert back to global variables, and check the real overhead.

No i made a typo, it should be 0.158_s (hehe)...

Playing with this problem a bit back and forth, it seams to me that the actual work (the two REPEAT nested loops) only consumes part of the time and a rather large % is spent on overhead (OS/memory management etc).

With better understanding of the inner workings of Prime OS, the code can be optimized to minimize the time further.