Great Cow BASIC - Speed Test.. please help

[Anobium]

rIt is now August 2024. 18 year of development and the compiler is getting faster.

Compiling: GLCD_Touch_Simple_Demonstration_ATmega2560_SSD1289.gcb

Summary:
     Compiled:
          Program lines: 11344
          Subroutines:  User: 0 ; System: 44 of 559 ; Total: 44
     Chip resource usage:
          Program Memory: 11613/131072 words (8.86%)
          RAM: 426/8192 bytes (5.2%)
          OSC: 16Mhz

Assembling program using GCASM
Assembler: GCASM
     Building symbol table ...
     Generating machine code ...
Program assembled successfully (Assembly time: 0.541 seconds)

 (Total time: 3.023 seconds)
Done

Same source, same computer. Same old me.

So, what was 4.3 secs a few years ago is now 3.1 secs. I have been tweaking the performance of the compiler to reduce the compilation time. Saving those seconds really count!

[Kato]

Speed test

GCBASIC (2025.01.10 (Windows 64 bit) : Build 1447)

Compiling: GLCD_Touch_Simple_Demonstration_ATmega2560_SSD1289.gcb
Program compiled successfully (Compile time: 1.484 seconds)

Summary:
     Compiled:
          Program lines: 11344
          Subroutines:  User: 0 ; System: 44 of 578 ; Total: 44
     Chip resource usage:
          Program Memory: 11613/131072 words (8.86%)
          RAM: 426/8192 bytes (5.2%)
          OSC: 16Mhz

Assembling program using GCASM
Program assembled successfully (Assembly time: 0.360 seconds)

Done

Total time: 1.844 seconds - are things getting faster?

[Anobium]

That is amazingly fast.

No performance changes since March 2024 but computers are faster. :-)

Would take longer to program the target microcontroller!

[Anobium]

🚀Latest Speed Test on build 1484

Build 1484 is the Release Candidate build for May 2025. Overall time is 1.75 seconds.

Windows 11 on main development computer.

GCBASIC (2025.05.08 (Windows 64 bit) : Build 1484)

Compiling: GLCD_Touch_Simple_Demonstration_ATmega2560_SSD1289.gcb
GCASM compilation configuration selected
Program compiled successfully (Compile time: 1.5 seconds)

Summary:
     Compiled:
          Program lines: 14341
          Subroutines:  User: 0 ; System: 44 of 587 ; Total: 44
     Chip resource usage:
          Program Memory: 11613/131072 words (8.86%)
          RAM: 426/8192 bytes (5.2%)
          OSC: 16Mhz

Assembling program using GCASM
Program assembled successfully (Assembly time: 0.25 seconds)
Done

The optimisation in GCASM has reduced the total time by a fraction of a second.

I closely monitor this benchmark test, ensuring that any additional syntax checks and error handlers integrated into the compiler are highly optimised to maintain the shortest possible execution time.

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⏳ Evolution of Speed: I do remember when this was ⏱️ 35s, then down to ⏱️ 10s... now ⏱️ 1.75s!

[HackInBlack]

GLCD_Simple_Demonstration_ATmega2560_SSD1289.gcb

Compilation Report
Compiler Version (YYYY-MM-DD): 2025.02.15 (Windows 64 bit) : Build 1465)
Compilation time
(Compile time: 1.645447 seconds)
(Assembly time: 0.003540039 seconds)

Intel Core i7-12700 12x 2.10 GHz - 4.90 GHz
16GB High Performance DDR5 RAM
1000GB M.2 NVME High Performance PCIe SSD
Windows 11 64Bit Professional

[Anobium]

Wow. Very quick.

Run it a few times. Note the timing. Check on build 1484 when it comes out. You have a new baseline to work from.