New G2 HP Prime

[Claudio L.]

(08-31-2018 01:46 AM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 01:22 AM)Claudio L. Wrote:  the HP Prime takes its sweet time doing the MAKELIST()

Hmmm? What are you thinking of here. The number of objects in the list is calculated using the start/stop/step, and then pointers are dropped in there as calculated. What is the "sweet time" you are talking about?

Reading post #82 and around, I thought he went from 1.15 seconds to 0.805 seconds by converting to local vars and moving MAKELIST out of the loop, that's 20% of execution time. I assumed most of that overhead would be on MAKELIST since they were talking about memory management (and that's pretty much the only statement that allocates any memory). EDIT: I blamed MAKELIST because it evaluates an expression repeatedly, that's bound to be much slower than just writing a zero-filled list.
But now reading again, that 1.15 seconds was a typo so my thoughts were way off.
If it isn't the case, then even more reason to leave the code as-is and not try to tweak it by moving things out of the loop.