Re: Apple II benchmarks

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>Forrest wrote:
>
>> >Sieve test in BASIC
>> >    A2 - 245 secs  PC- 191 secs
>>
>> IIRC, Sieve of Eratosthenes is an integer benchmark.  Applesoft does all
>> calculations in FP format.  Wonder if the PC BASIC did the same...
>
>BASICA is an FP BASIC, so I would assume (not always safe to do) that Byte
>would write the program to get the best possible speed.

Good point.  Still, it is no secret that on the Apple II, Integer BASIC
was much faster than Applesoft.  In fact, Applesoft is slower than
almost any other language written for the Apple II.