About calculator benchmark (8 queens) and fast devices. MS challenge #2

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(12-28-2018 02:37 PM)xerxes Wrote:  A simple explanation could be a more efficient bytecode interpreter. If I'm not mistaken, the CPU frequency of the CG50 is 59 MHz only, while executing MicroPython.

It could be. Another datapoint is the benchmark results given here:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-975...l#pid86751

Here the Prime G2 is an order of magnitude faster than CG50 MicroPython. Thats why I questioned the faster than G2 result here, esp given the low clockspeed of 59MHz.