6502/Z80 speed comparison (was MITS 2SIO serial chip?)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Dec 22 19:28:55 2001

On Dec 22, 1:16, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> CLeyson_at_aol.com wrote:
> <snip>
> > Here is the code from Numerical Recipies for an insertion sort (Fortran
and C)
> <snip>

> Do they have the "Small C Compiler" for the 6502? I know you can get a
> Z80 or 8080
> compiler under CP/M. Note the version #1 does not have for or &&
> instructions.

It wouldn't really be fair to use a compiler for the code to compare
processors. You'd end up testing the relative merits of two compilers as
much as testing the processors.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York

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