WP-34S N-Queens Benchmark taking too long

[Paul Dale]

(10-21-2014 12:10 AM)patrice Wrote:  Can you tell me if the 34S have functions to convert a program from LBL/GTO to BACK/SKIP and reverse ?

There is no capability to do this on the device.


There is a stand alone assembler written in Perl that handles this for us for internal code and libraries, although not by converting from one to the other as such. The assembler has the ability to automatically generate both styles of branch based on the distance to be jumped. You can, of course, force it to use one or the other.


Use LBL / GTO unless you're working on a challenge to minimise the number of steps. In that case, use LBL / GTO until everything else is minimised and then convert. BACK / SKIP make for unmaintainable code.


- Pauli