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    23-Jul-90  19:41:30
Sb: #5481-#CoCo/OSK Basic(09)
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)

I added a test on a 3-meg MM/1 (2-megs fast RAM for program, 1-meg shared RAM
for video) and got these times in seconds (slowest to fastest):

              1000 10000 20000  1000
 CPU          ints  ints  ints  real   Computer     Basic
 ===========  ====  ====  ====  ====   ===========  =====
  2Mhz  6809 -   4    40    78    10   CoCo
 15Mhz 68070 -   3    30    59    19   MM/1 (1meg)    2.1
 12Mhz 68010 -   3    26    52     8   VMEbus ?       1.2
 15Mhz 68070 -   2    20    39    13   MM/1 (3meg)    2.1
 16Mhz 68000 -   1    12    23     8   PT68K          2.1
 25Mhz 68030 -   1     8    14     2   VMEbus ?       2.3

This shows the speed increase when not running out of video RAM on the MM/1.

It also seems to show up an anomaly. Why did the 68010 do so well using REAL
variables?  Does the earlier Basic version use smaller data or is just a
mistake in your chart? - kev

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