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Sb: #5091-#Is Basic out of date?
Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)

You mean that OSK Basic uses 64-bit floaters? That means floating-point
algorithms will run just as slow in Basic as in C under OSK.  One advantage of
Basic09 on the 6809 is that its single-precision (32 bits, and to heck with the
IEEE) floating math was MUCH FASTER than C, which insists on the cumbersome
double precision, whether you want it or not.

That's right -- on a Coco, a floating-point program in Basic09 will outrun the
same code in C.  I was amaxzed to discover that.  --mike k

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