50g - overclock

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(05-21-2018 10:57 AM)pier4r Wrote:  HPGCC3 is an entire new firmware to let run C (arm) code without the ARMtoolbox on the standard firmware.

In HPGCC2 (one could keep the 2.15 firmware in that case) you can push up or down the clock but, for what I know, still within the C code.

Also while I don't like the one that says "oh why do you want to do this?", because if one wants to do something, there is always a reason, I personally wouldn't overclock the 50g while using userRPL as it wouldn't be much a gain compared to the risk. It is way better (also for personal learning and contributing to spot bugs) to install newRPL or to start to work with hpgcc / sysrpl (the first really fast but community based, the second with more documentation around plus still able to use the large RPL library, although slower than C).

If one installs newRPL, aside from certain topics (like CAS), one gets a rpl environment at least 5 times faster than the userRPL if I am not mistaken. That offsets whatever overclock.

I know that the newRPL provides much more speed with almost drop in support for a userRPL (thanks to Claudios magnificent work), but this one is used for a work so I do want to have full feature set including the CAS.

I only were interesting to get more speed for a few iterative calculution snippets I have build (conditional for loops).. Reading further both these comments provided kindly here and elsewhere and Alistair Borowskis original short documentation it seems pretty obvious that this is a wrong approach.

While I have written a few lines of code in C, I don't seem to like it (in general), maybe I try the 'almost' obsolete HP Pascal Studio which doesn't have such a vision test and parenthesis joggling going on (try to type parenthesis with FI-keyboard and you soon hate your life.).