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2019-06-23 05:55
Moloch

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Release id #178956 : Plant

Submitted by Compyx [PM] on 23 June 2019
Probably this (from Lemon64 of all places):

There is an even better way to do it - let's abuse the DIM-command!!

Since DIM normally clears an array, why not use it for clearing a bitmap as well?

Try this:
POKE 88,0:POKE 89,63:POKE 113,64:POKE 114,31:POKE 12,1:SYS 45760

This will fill memory from 8192-16191 ($2000-$3F3F) will nullbytes.

- Catboy


Fucking BASIC weirdos :)

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Submitted by Oswald [PM] on 22 June 2019
IIRC you can clear memory faster with declaring a large array :)

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Submitted by Oswald [PM] on 22 June 2019
80 mem=8192+int(v/8)*320+int(u/8)*8+(vand7):pokemem,peek(mem)or2^(7-(uand7))

lol :D
 
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2019-06-27 13:30
Trash

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Further optimization may be to dim more frequently used variables later (or earlier), not sure but I am pretty sure the order affects the speed IIRC
2019-06-27 15:00
ChristopherJam

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The REMs are all after the mainloop so I suspect they wouldn't things change much, but I was indeed wondering about dropping all the active variables down to a single letter.

I forgot about the fast parsing of "." as 0; think I saw that somewhere too.

Trash, that's an excellent point about predeclaring variables; probably applies to the scalars as much as the arrays.

Anyone want to measure the effect of any of these?

(I was initially benchmarking by checking TI before and after a thousand iterations, but counting iterations affects the timing, so at some point I switched to setting a watch in VICE on writes to 2000-3fff, then counting ten iterations and calculating the difference in the cycle counter you get in the monitor)
2019-06-28 21:00
Rastah Bar

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Turning off interrupts?
2019-07-05 03:10
Rudi
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how is
x and 504
different than
x and 248
? (in that code specifically?)
2019-07-05 16:47
ChristopherJam

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Rudi - you need 504 ($01f8) to support X values greater than 255

That said, -8 also works to clear the low three bits, and a quick test shows it's considerably faster! I guess it avoids a couple of multiply-by-10s in the parser.

I just compared
a=ti:fori=1to1000:j=iand-8:next:?ti-a
to
a=ti:fori=1to1000:j=iand504:next:?ti-a

The latter is around 420 ticks, compared to 320 for the former.
2019-07-07 06:06
Rudi
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ok neat
2019-07-07 21:54
bugjam

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*waitingfornewversion* :-)
2019-07-08 04:24
Rudi
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bugjam: ChristopherJam is the Master of size and speed optimizing Basic programs so let him do it :) I can come up with wrong ideas that will lead to some lesser ticks perhaps, but.
2019-07-08 22:36
bugjam

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Don't be too modest, you triggered the whole thing, which is an achievement as well. :-)
2019-07-09 02:41
Rudi
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Thanks bugjam.
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