On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:30:59 -0800, ArcadeAge wrote:

> On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 6:53:16 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:21:40 -0800, ArcadeAge wrote:
>>
>> > On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 12:30:49 PM UTC+1, ArcadeAge wrote:
>> >> On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 8:21:52 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
>> >> > Hello Commodore fans,
>> >> >
>> >> > You may have heard of the Advent of Code challenge.  For a bit of fun I
>> >> > decided to do day 6 of the challenge on the Commodore 128 using its 
built
>> >> > in Basic.  It took days to calculate but it was great to be able to
>> >> > complete it on this machine.
>> >> >
>> >> > If you're interested here it is:
>> >> > https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#day6
>> > Ok, there are enough data, but line numbers are re-used, overwriting 
previously entered code. Easy to fix.
>> > VICE running at ~4000% -- faster than any SuperCPU, I guess.
>>
>> I'm glad you noticed that.  I never noticed because I used petcat to
>> create the .PRG so it wasn't a problem.  I have just gone back and
>> changed the code.  Thanks.
>>
>> 4000% wow, my machine must be getting old, the most I've managed on
>> vice is about 480%.
>>
> More likely you're running VICE with all the bells & whistles on.
> Switch off sound and true drive emulation (and anything else that's expensive 
to emulate).
> As I had to learn today, percentages are (of course) relative. The program 
runs even faster in 80 column fast mode, although the percentage is then only 
2500 -- relative to 2 MHz, that is.


That's really interesting. I turned sound off and suddenly it's
running at just over 3300% when running 80 column in fast mode.


Lorry


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