8-Queens Benchmark

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(01-06-2017 04:00 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  It appears the 41 Translator core of Forth (2A) was tweaked considerably, as it is notably faster than version 1A. This is surprising, as it is ostensibly basically the original version with some custom Forth words to let it "run" HP-41 Programs.

Thank you for the detailed testing and commenting the results. I've updated the list with the fastest values.

(01-06-2017 06:31 PM)Jurgen Keller Wrote:  PS: Rash thoughts - I forgot that without a 9101A you don't have indirect addressing. Maybe that can be emulated by some self-modifying code?

Yes, it's possible to use a float var to hold the array, but it makes no sense in case of benchmarking, due to the very expensive array access.