Posted By
Gaia
on 2017-02-14
02:17:50
|  Re: BASIC Balloon Breaker
My bad, it was a quick reaction, Csabo is absolutely right on most issues. However, it should be noted that although indeed "I1" vs. "I%" is a more fair comparison due to the parsing but as a real life example we should test against a single character variable since it is not possible using forced integers otherwise, so that is the overhead the whole thing comes with, i.e. it should be faster even with this overhead. Well it turns out it's not  I just checked the C64 in VICE with separate 4 liners and I obtained this:
6169 (float)
6583 (int)
Well, now I recall I used to have learned this trick on the TRS-80 (HT1080Z for the Hungarian folks) where it did speed things up a lot, but that's an entirely different implementation of Microsoft's BASIC.
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