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Re: Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:04:43 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Ben Jackson writes:
> While working on the barcode scanner I decided to see just how fast the RCX
> could loop. A simple NQC program can do about 1000 counter loop iterations in
> about 100 ticks, or 1 iteration/ms. This is shockingly slow. The native
> H8/329 is clocked at 16Mhz and claims to do simple adds in 2 clocks...
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> This is causing me to seriously consider legOS for the first time...
Yes.
It is important to realise, that the RCX, does not perhaps do the
interpretation in the way you think. In each 'loop', it executes one
instruction from each of the possible threads, and also reads the A-D's, on
each sensor, and updates to states for the motor outputs. There is a basic
'tick', used to go round this loop, and no matter how simple each instruction
is, it will still only execute one on each pass round the loop. Hence you will
only 'see' one instruction executed for each loop, rather than anything
approaching the speed of the H8 processor. This has both advantages and
disadvantages. The obvious disadvantage is the lack of speed (though for most
mechanical applications, this is adequate), but the advantage, is that all
threads receive the same priority. If you want to do something faster, you
have to look at other firmware. Though it is also worth realising that if you
did an interpreter that took the same approach on the PC (one
instruction/tick), the basic tick here is 18mSec, which doesn't make the RCX
look so bad in this context...
Best Wishes
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