Any Surveyors?

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RMollov said

Quote:If you add argument checking as you should when using SYSEVAL timing may get different. Also timing is negligible in this case. Pressing a single button probably takes longer than 49ms Wink
What's more, P->R and R->P are essential for the older RPN style programming (excluding HP42s). Unless one wants to replicate 1:1 HP41 program to HP48, RPL has lots of options dealing better with this. I've written quite a big suite of surveying programs for both HP41 & HP48/28 doing the same thing and noticed that I never actually needed P->R and R->P on the HP48 (or 28).

i agree RMollov if only running a program in single instances speed isn't much of an issue
(whats .0324 m/sec between friends)
however if running a more extensive routine which might invoke (evaluate whatever the correct word is :-)) our little P->R hundreds of times then the extra speed could help. i am setting up a routine(not survey related) that will need the fastest SORT (thingy) i can find. i have looked at some machine language (can get huge speed increases but 10 minutes of reading this stuff causes my brain to bleed (& i estimate i would need 10^9 years to learn it) .