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Part 2 of #AdventOfCode Day 7: my rough estimate is that my current code will run for… well a LONG time on a lowly #C64. So what to do… I know! Run the exact same code on BBC Basic on a 2.6Ghz i7 in 60 seconds ;-) Cheating? Maybe. Am I happy anyway? Yes #commodore #BBCBASIC

▸ Dec 7, 2021 ▸ Michael Doornbos ▸ 0 words

← Might have to start doing these in Assembly starting tomorrow if I want to keep using 8 Bit (around 1Mhz ish) computers. Part 1 of #AdventOfCode Day 7 took almost 6 hours. Good thing I started it in the middle of the night ;-) #commodore Something interesting I like to do on these long calculations is to compare machines to the fastest Commodore computer, the PAL VIC-20. In this case, the VIC-20 finished 48 minutes sooner than the NTSC C64. Very scientific of course 😉 #commodore →
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