Is the Prime the fastest calculator ever made?

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello

(12-20-2017 03:34 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 06:10 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  In raw number crunching, discarding user program management (such as when you do a large amtrix multiplication or inversion), it probably is the fastest.
Cyrille

I doubt it. The Cortex M4 in the Numworks has an FPU, so if raw number crunching is the measurement, I don't think the Prime can even get close.

I was thinking raw decimal float number crunching...

Numworks CPU is a newer generation, but the generation gain is far from compensing for the clock speed difference. The latest 12C does also have a cortex M4 and the speed gain was around 1.3 times compared with the ARM7 based one.

Also, the cortex FPU only supported 32 bits floats. Which is very limited for doing calculator math.

Cyrille