HP Prime: a student's view

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(08-30-2021 01:11 AM)Liam Hays Wrote:  [*]Why is Python so fast, compared to PPL? For reference, I ran the thimet.de Performance Index in PPL and Python. PPL scored about 27,200, and Python scored a little over 490,000. That's a factor of 18 times faster in Python.

One HP guru told me that HPPL runs under a type of virtual machine. Python runs directly on the processor.

I ran a Python translation of the C program on that site on a TI-84 Plus CE Python and got an index of 2302.74. Not bad for a cheap school calculator.
Here's what I ran:

Code:

from math import *
from time import *
t=monotonic()
loops=1000
for i in range(0,loops):
    r0=10
    while True:
      x=r0
      x+=1
      x-=4.567E-4
      x+=70
      x-=69
      x*=7
      x/=11
      r0-=1
      if r0<=0:
        break
    x=log(x)
    x=sin(x)
    x=sqrt(x)
    x=sqrt(x)
print(x)
t=monotonic()-t
print("Index: {0:.2f}".format(34/t*loops))