06-17-2023, 09:05 AM
(06-17-2023, 06:12 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: @Stuart The speed increases you're seeing is probably from recent improvements to PRINT. I'll try to work up a demo sometime to highlight the various improvements for you guys to have fun testing out later.
I'll be interested in checking out the PRINT demos when they're available, but in the test program I mentioned earlier there are less than 100 lines printed at 80 characters per line in SCREEN 0; so, I think it has more to do with the math routines being faster somehow OR just the fact that it's running in SCREEN 0.
I mainly program in SCREEN 0 and noticed many years ago that it always seems a little faster than the other (graphical) modes.
Basically, I'm dividing 1 / 999,999,998 out to 55,475,113 digits in approximately 6.0 seconds when using v3.7.0 versus about 4.2 seconds when using v3.8.0 and I've never seen a difference this big between two adjacent versions -- even all the way back to the days of SDL.
I'm using the 32 bit version of QB64PE on an old Windows Vista computer; maybe that has something to do with it?? Whatever the reason, I have no complaints.
I pray that your health improves daily, and keep up the good work!