Date   : Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:14:55 +0000
From   : jgh@... (jgh@...)
Subject: 32016 + 32082

Patrick Kaell wrote:
> The BASIC benchmarks are too 6502 friendly. A 2MHz 8bit 6502 running 
> BBC
> BASIC could easily outperform a 6MHz 16bit 80286 running GW-BASIC.
...
> When Acorn ... evaluated processors like 68000, 32016 and 80286.
> the performance ... was disapointing compared to the 6502
> This was the very reason why Acorn decided to develop the ARM.

As well as the horrendous interupt latency, I remember reading
something along the lines of: a well-written 6502 BASIC program
actually ran faster than a lot of 32016 machine code.

JGH