Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <dWsQ4.2046$R17.2070@newsfeed.slurp.net>,
Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>For the record, Applesoft's FP package was notoriously slow (being something 
>of a rush-job unoptimized port of 8080 code, I'm told).  Code your benchmarks 
>in assembler as Woz intended.

The Applesoft FP package wasn't that bad -- it compared favourably with 8080
code running at twice the clock speed -- and then Applesoft yielded 9-10
digits of precision while the 8080 code yielded only 7 digits of precision.

You suggest that I should have written that program in assembler.  If
I had followed your edvice, that program would not have been completed.




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