On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 4:33 PM Eric LK <tr...@lefauve.org> wrote: > "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > ?MID$(H$,A/16+1,1);MID$(H$,AMOD16+1,1);" "; > > It would be slightly faster with: > ?MID$(H$,A\16+1,1);MID$(H$,(AAND15)+1,1);" "; > > The biggest difference is the integer division, which to be honest > surprised me, since the variables are already integers. > Perhaps they are cast into regular (float) values before the division > is attempted? > > > Probably gets promoted because of the constant 16. Default for constants is double precision float... so I guess make it 16% explicit? I don't know if that syntax is correct. BASIC seems to be happy with it.
-- John.
