Micropython is faster than MMBasic :-(

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toml_12953 Guru Joined: 13/02/2015 Location: United States Posts: 720	Posted: 02:51pm 24 Jul 2026         matherp said   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 I notice the BASIC version has a BASIC subroutine for matrix transpose. MMBasic has one built in. Would using the MATH subroutine be faster than the one written in BASIC?