1,024 additional Registers on the CL

[Ángel Martin]

(08-13-2016 04:04 PM)Gene Wrote:  So here's a challenge.
Fastest sort routine to handle 1000 random values.

Wonder how S3 from the PPC rom would do modified to use these new functions? It was awfully quick for a focal routine.

Not much of a challenge anymore, it was very easy to modify the S2/S3 routines in those steps involving IND registers manipulation; piece of cake.

The only precaution was that register P(8) is also used by the functions, so I replaced that in the S2 routine with the (standard) R00 register.

The execution times are amazing, even for large sets: In TURBO 50 and with a frozen ALPHA message (to avoid the goose) it cruised thru a 102 register set in 7.5 seconds , and did the 1,000 register block in a little more than 32 sec. I had previously populated the set with random values using the YRAN program above.

So i declare the module complete, and ready for prime time!