Posted By
MMS
on 2008-11-11
16:26:26
 |  Re: 2008 - new releases
Yepp, but the problem is that we need fast graphics command. Just saw some graph routines put into BASIC's command extension, optimized for speed (io. circle, draw line), generally 15-30x faster that the one written for C128 (generally I can say Plussy uses the same routines, same dev.team behind). I mean used in the same Basic interpreter environment, the assembly routines so much faster.
So, generally speaking, those nice basic commands written for our beloved Plussy, simply crappy written. Yes, they were big advantage over C64, but the speed had to kept in focus too, as they wrote a lot of painfully slow routines, just remember paint, or the "oft-sprite" routines, how slow they were.
In the Autrospeed is just speeding up these routines -supposedly actively using registers, maybe- it may help writing fast calculations, or database handling, but this is not the aim of plussy programming any more, if I am right...
But I will do some benchmarks, when have a little more time
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