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Re: Apple II benchmarks



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.

Roy