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Completely unscientific and meaningless benchmarks are fun. My favorite BASIC program of all time is this maze from 1981 originally written for the Atari 400/800 and the PET. Turbo BASIC XL sure does help the Atari 800XL be the machine it really is. Impressive. #atari #commodore

▸ Jan 4, 2022 ▸ Michael Doornbos ▸ 0 words
← These warnings exist because someone did it. I reserve ruining my broadheads by missing and hitting a tree… like a man. Okay, now I can clearly see why I'm going to keep learning Julia. Python took 18 seconds to do 100k iterations. Julia (almost identical code, definitely same approach) took 706 milliseconds. Dayuummm. →
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