Posted By
Csabo
on 2017-11-27
14:57:08
|  Re: Patch for BASIC to make it faster?
"What is the real difference between ROM and RAM speed?" Nothing, I think you might not be clear on what's exactly happening. (Also... I swear we talked about this a while back.)
Anyway, the "speed" or RAM/ROM is the same. What changes here is how the BASIC programs are being run: it routinely does RAM/ROM swapping. (It must; since the BASIC programs can be above $8000 in the RAM, but the code that executes those BASIC programs is on the same location; above $8000 in the ROM.)
If the programs are short, as JamesD pointed out in the first post, this could be eliminated, ROM can be selected at all times. So, less paging = less operations = speed gain. It's clever, but not that spectacular really IMHO, and I do think that the values Kichy just posted are representative of what can be expected.
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