HP-35S Bug List Bug?

[Thomas Radtke]

(03-12-2015 07:02 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  Also, avoid putting your 35s into a never-ending loop. This is good practice in general, but will save you headaches on any 8 bit system with the 6502 or 6510 processor core under the covers, like the HP35s.

(1) The above program locks up the emulator as well plus it blanks the display, which means something happens outside the loop after pressing R/S.

(2) There's no indication such a loop is executed as compiled 6502 code. The Clear key would then have to send a NMI or MI to interrupt a program and at the same time function within the interpreter to accomplish its other tasks. This is unnecessary complex, allthough I like the idea of a JIT compiler.

(3) I would expect compiled code to run faster.

I'm not sure your theory is right.