Difference between revisions of "BASIC Benchmark"

Revision as of 21:56, 1 November 2006

Benchmark from Personal Computer World, who included the 8th trigonometric test.

The benchmarks are written in Basic.

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BENCHMARK 1 (new)

100 REM TEST 1
110 PRINT "START"
120 FOR K=1 TO 1000
130 NEXT K
500 PRINT "STOP"
550 END

BENCHMARK 2

120 K=0
130 K=K+1
190 IF K<1000 THEN GOTO 130

BENCHMARK 3

140 A=K/K*K+K-K

BENCHMARK 4

140 A=K/2*3+4-5

BENCHMARK 5

150 GOSUB 600
600 RETURN

BENCHMARK 6

125 DIM M(5)
155 FOR L=1 TO 5
160 NEXT L

BENCHMARK 7

157 M(L)=A

BENCHMARK 8 (new)

100 REM TEST 8
110 PRINT "START"
120 K=0
130 K=K+1
140 A=K^2
150 B=LOG(K)
160 C=SIN(K)
170 IF K<1000 THEN GOTO 130
180 PRINT "STOP"
190 END 

Test results

             BM1   BM2   BM3   BM4   BM5   BM6   BM7  BM8  Avg
             --------------------------------------------------
BBC (B ?)    0.6   3.2   8.1   8.8   9.9  14.3  21.9   48  14.3
Amstrad CPC  1.1   3.4   9.2   9.7  10.3  19.2  29.0   34  14.5
IBM PC       1.5   5.2  12.1  12.6  13.6  23.5  37.4   35  17.6
Acorn Atom   0.5   5.1   9.5  10.8  13.9  19.1  31.1   92  22.8
VIC-20       1.4   8.3  15.5  17.1  18.3  27.2  42.7   99  28.7
Apple II     1.3   8.5  16.0  17.8  19.1  28.6  44.8  107  30.4
Dragon 32    1.6  10.2  19.7  21.6  23.3  34.3  50.0  129  36.2
Oric Atmos   1.6  15.2  25.4  27.4  33.0  45.6  68.5  136  44.1
SVI-328      1.6   5.4  17.9  19.6  20.6  30.7  42.2  236  46.7
ZX81 (fast)  4.5   6.9  16.4  15.8  18.6  49.7  68.5  229  51.2
Microtan65   1.9  12.8  24.7  27.8  29.6  43.2  68.9  243  56.5
ZX Spectrum  4.8   8.7  21.1  20.4  24.0  55.3  80.7  253  58.5
Oric-1       1.8  17.1  29.0  31.4  38.0  51.8  77.8  230  59.6
Atari 600XL  2.2   7.2  19.1  22.8  25.8  37.6  58.3  412  73.1
TI-99/4A     2.9   8.8  22.8  24.5  26.1  61.6  84.4  382  76.6

(results in seconds)