pyCard_turtleTimes

[Cousin Stanley]

I think I need to go to the 'puter store ...

Yesterday I ran the PythonCard turtle samples 
and became quite disgusted with the results of 100,000 iterations
on my modest machine after reading comments in the  hopalong  sample 
pertaining to a machine with a bit more punch ... 

    # 500,000 iterations takes approximately 15 seconds 
    # on my AMD 1.2GHz Windows 2000 box
    # with a GeForce 2 video card, so an older machine 
    # is  LIKELY   to take much longer ... 

It did ... 
    15 minutes ... compared to 15 seconds 
    for 1/5 the number of iterations ...
    
I'd be interested to know how other  machines/platforms  compare 
for the ones that take the longest here ... 

    ChaosScript2and3 ..... 1306    ~22 min
    hopalong ......................  893    ~15 min
    madness ...................... 2771    ~46 min

Cousin Stanley

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Hardware 

  Compaq Presario 5304
    Processor ... CyrixInstead 686MX 250 MHz
    Memory ...... 192 MB
    Video ........... On-board 

Software

  Win98  1st Ed
  Python 2.2.1

PythonCard ... Samples ... turtle

    Sample ....................... Seconds 

    3Turtles ..................... 214
    4bugs ............................  33
    automata ..................... 213
    bytedesign ................... 112
    ChaosScript1 ................  66
    ChaosScript1Direct ......  29
    ChaosScriptFastest ......  22
    ChaosScript2and3 ..... 1306    ~22 min
    coordinates ....................    3
    distance .........................    0.4
    generalPlot ...................   86
    HelloTurtle ...................    0.17
    hilbert ...........................   36
    hopalong ......................  893    ~15 min
    kochCurves ..................   14
    madness ...................... 2771    ~46 min
    originalbytedesign ......  113
    pentests ........................   21
    raceturtles ...................   82
    spingon .........................    2.75
    sun ...............................  113
    toitles ...........................   50
    trees ...........................  400  
    TurtleScript ..............  182
    TurtleScript2 ............   39
    TurtleScriptFirst ......    3.7