Assembler, but not at all

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(10-11-2023 02:20 PM)John Keith Wrote:  Being that the Prime is an HP graphing calculator, I would think that RPL is the natural choice if another language was available. Of course, RPL is slower than PPL, never mind a compiled language, so not really applicable to the task at hand.

It's not that simple to unequivocally state that RPL is slower than PPL. For example, consider the HP49G, which had a Saturn processor clocked at 4MHz and additionally only a 4-bit data bus (meaning not only did it have just 4MHz, but in some cases, it required multiple cycles for a single operation). On the other hand, the HP Prime is clocked at 528 MHz (G2) and operates on 32 bits in a single cycle. The theoretical performance difference might be up to 1000 times ((528/4)*(32/4) = 1056). If we were to run PPL on the HP49G, it might not necessarily be faster than RPL at those 4 MHz... Looking from another perspective, I could ask whether RPL accelerated 1000 times would be faster than PPL?