Re: May the numbers speak

It was thus said that the Great Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> once stated:

 
It's slightly faster than the original on 4tH:
real    0m5,527s
user    0m5,522s
sys     0m0,004s
 
Opcodes: his: 39, yours: 37

  I think I am in a unique position to get an exact cycle count of the
various attempts due to cycle emulation of the CPU my ANS Forth implemention
targets (the 6809, an 8-bit CPU).  I ran the three versions LIT presented,
plus the version he said was Mr. Fifo's.  I also ran dxf's version.  Each
version included the following word:

: FOO S" 12:34:56" TIMESTRSCAN D. ;

and I recorded the number CPU cycles the following line took to run:

FOO BYE

  The results:

dxf cycles=75453
fifo cycles=85658
LIT#1 cycles=78642
LIT#2 cycles=78714
LIT#3 cycles=78720

  I also ran miniforth's version, and timed this the line:

HMS 12:34:56 .S BYE

  It was not fast:

minforth cycles=834951

  Make of this what you will.

  -spc