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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : CMM2: Benchmarking against other new-retro computers
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PeteCotton Guru  Joined: 13/08/2020 Location: CanadaPosts: 368 |
Well, I am a silly sausage. I've been looking at the how the CMM2 stacks up to the current competition. The Agon Light makes a big deal as to how fast it's basic is, and they publish a table on their website showing it compared to other computers using Matt Heffernan's Mandelbrot benchmark.  So, I thought this would be an easy win, and punched the benchmark into my CMM2 - but try as I might, I couldn't get it running as fast as the Agon.... or so I thought. The CMM2 consistently runs the program in 136 milliseconds, how on earth was the Agon posting 70 millisecond times? Ah - this is where my stupidity comes in - that doesn't say 0.07 seconds - it says 0:07 seconds - i.e. it takes the Agon 7 seconds to draw the test. All is right with the world again. Even in Assembler, the Agon takes 0.7 seconds - see video below. So, the CMM2 BASIC is 5 times faster than the Agon Assembled version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLk_X8VIK8 *This post is not meant to knock the Agon - it's an 8 bit machine running against a 480MHz ARM - and I think they've done a wonderful job with it. But if we are to put the CMM2 out there as one of the major front runners in the new retro scene - and a machine where you can program the game of your dreams without needing to drop into machine code - then we need to be able to prove that it's as fast as we say it is. |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4238 |
Picomite VGA: 700ms in a non optimized stupid line number version 10 mode 2 20 DIM COL(15) 30 for I=0 to 14:READ COL(I):NEXT I 40 timer=0 100 FOR PY=0 TO 21 110 FOR PX=0 TO 31 120 XZ = PX*3.5/32-2.5 130 YZ = PY*2/22-1 140 X = 0 150 Y = 0 160 FOR I=0 TO 14 170 IF X*X+Y*Y > 4 THEN GOTO 215 180 XT = X*X - Y*Y + XZ 190 Y = 2*X*Y + YZ 200 X = XT 210 NEXT I 215 IF I = 15 THEN I = 0 230 box PX*8,PY*8,8,8,1,COL(I),COL(I) 240 NEXT PX 260 NEXT PY 280 print timer 300 Data RGB(BLUE),RGB(GREEN),RGB(CYAN),RGB(RED) 310 Data RGB(MAGENTA),RGB(YELLOW),RGB(WHITE),RGB(MYRTLE) 320 Data RGB(COBALT) ,RGB(MIDGREEN),RGB(CERULEAN),RGB(RUST) 330 Data RGB(FUCHSIA),RGB(BROWN),RGB(LILAC) As fast as Aegon in assembly... Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| PeteCotton Guru Joined: 13/08/2020 Location: CanadaPosts: 368 |
Nice. I also noticed that in the Agon code, they moved line 130 up two lines so it's between the FOR loops - which make it run even faster. 10 mode 2 100 FOR PY=0 TO 21 110 FOR PX=0 TO 31 120 XZ = PX*3.5/32-2.5 130 YZ = PY*2/22-1 10 mode 2 100 FOR PY=0 TO 21 105 YZ = PY*2/22-1 110 FOR PX=0 TO 31 120 XZ = PX*3.5/32-2.5 Edited 2023-12-09 02:03 by PeteCotton |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9120 |
579mSec on a PicoMiteVGA at 252MHz with a couple of tweaks option explicit Dim integer py,px,i Dim float x,y,xz,yz,xt MODE 2 Dim integer COL(16) For I=0 To 15:Read COL(I):Next I Timer =0 For PY=0 To 168 Step 8 YZ=PY/88-1 For PX=0 To 248 Step 8 XZ=PX/73.14-2.5:X=0:Y=0 For I=0 To 14 If X*X+y*y>4 Then Exit For XT=X*x-Y*y+XZ:Y=2*X*Y+YZ:X=XT Next Box PX,PY,8,8,0,0,COL(I) Next Next Print Timer Data RGB(BLUE),RGB(GREEN),RGB(CYAN),RGB(RED) Data RGB(MAGENTA),RGB(YELLOW),RGB(WHITE),RGB(MYRTLE) Data RGB(COBALT) ,RGB(MIDGREEN),RGB(CERULEAN),RGB(RUST) Data RGB(FUCHSIA),RGB(BROWN),RGB(LILAC),RGB(BLUE) Edited 2023-12-09 03:26 by matherp |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1113 |
 yes, I remember, I think that was my introduction to the forum here :-)Even with VT100 it was still faster than the 8 Bitter in Assembler. The bottleneck here was the serial transmission and the additional esc sequences. non optimized 'mandelbrot 'inspired by Matt Heffernan s 8-BIT BATTLE 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC5wi6iv9io 'for PicoMite is a Raspberry Pi Pico running the free MMBasic interpreter. 'and Putty or other VT100 emulation '2022 by M. Herhaus 'clrear screen, home and cursor off Print Chr$(27);"[2J";Chr$(27);"[H";Chr$(27);"[?25l"; ' max x and max y t=Timer DX=80:DY=30 For py=0 To DY-1 yz=py*2/DY-1 For px=0 To DX-1 xz=px*3.5/DX-2.5 x=0 y=0 For i=0 To 7 If x*x+y*y>4 Then Exit For xt = x*x - y*y + xz y= 2 * x * y + yz x=xt Next i Print Chr$(27);"[";Str$(py+1);"H";Chr$(27);"[";Str$(px+1);"G"; 'at py+1,px+1 Print Chr$(27);"[";Str$(39+i);"m "; Next px Next py Print Chr$(27);"[40m";Chr$(27);"[?25h" Print Timer-t PicoMite at 252MHz 3,3 sek 0,896 when setting dx to 31 and dy to 21 (like in the original challange Edited 2023-12-09 04:21 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| al18 Senior Member  Joined: 06/07/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 205 |
Last year I posted a short program that drew Archimedes Spiral on the VGA PicoMite. It’s a short program, but it required nearly 3 hours to complete on an Atari 800, but the PicoMite only needed 7-14 seconds. https://www.thebackshed.com/forum/ViewTopic.php?TID=14777&PID=185449#185449 |
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| PeteCotton Guru Joined: 13/08/2020 Location: CanadaPosts: 368 |
Very cool. I just tried it on the CMM2 and it runs (with a couple if minor tweaks) just under 1.4 seconds. There's life in the old dog yet! |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3150 |
I went back to al18's link and used VegiPete's version. Using 5.08.00b4, with all the enhancements to MMBasic, and running at CPUSPEED 378000, that 7-14 seconds dropped to 1.8 seconds for the ILI9341, and 6.6 seconds for the ILI9488. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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