Micropython is faster than MMBasic :-(

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matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 11848	Posted: 01:51pm 24 Jul 2026       One of my favourite benchmarks is the calculation of the solar eclipse. solar_eclipse.zip The data I use to test with is: 12,1,2000 39,40,36 -104,57,12 1644 30 Running on a HDMI build at 378 MHz this takes 13.23 seconds Converting this to Micropython 1:1 solar_eclipse_py.zip This runs in 8.77 seconds at 378MHz! but Micropython has a trick up its sleeve using the ulab library solar_eclipse_ulab.zip And now it runs in 7.44 seconds For reference if I run the Basic code on a 480MHz STM32H743 which has H/W double precision floating point it takes 7 seconds