new Casio’s fx-CG50

[Chasfield]

I downloaded C.Basic for CG Alpha. The comparative benchmarks for the fx-CG50 platform are as follows:

1) Iterate 10,000 addition operations:

Stock Casio Basic, 21 seconds
C.Basic for CG Alpha, way too short to measure!

2) Plot 2500 pixels in a 50x50 square:

Stock Casio Basic, 230 seconds
C.Basic for CG Alpha, ~0.6 seconds!

C.Basic is around 400 times faster at rendering pixels.

Years ago, I compared the then new HP39GII with the Casio fx-9860G (not the Slim version) on this forum using a Mandelbrot set plotting program on a field of 60x100 pixels as a benchmark.

I pulled up this code and ran it on the fx-CG50 using both interpreters. Here is the complete result table:

fx-9860G stock Casio Basic, 643 seconds
HP39GII, 44 seconds - quick
fx-CG50 stock Casio Basic , 608 seconds
fx-CG50 C.Basic for CG Alpha, 30 seconds - quicker still

Thus C.Basic is heading for 20 times as fast as stock Casio Basic with regard to number crunching and on a completely different scale with regard to screen rendering. It also pips the HP39GII. This is a good add-in.