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Tiny Basic Sieve Benchmark

Compared to the Sieve benchmarks in previous posts, Tiny Basic is very slow. In fact, it's much slower than I anticipated.

I ran Tiny Basic on both the Run Basic public server and Liberty Basic 4.03 on my laptop. Here are the numbers:



After 5000, the Run Basic program exceeded the allowable time on the public server.

The following is the Sieve program. I had to use IF statements because Tiny Basic doesn't have a FOR/NEXT loop yet.

10 REM sieve2

20 REM ported to Tiny Basic from Liberty Basic by David den Haring

30 REM last updated: 8-14-07

40 REM s -- size, a() -- flags array, a -- start time, z -- end time

50 REM i -- loop counter, p -- prime, c -- prime count, k -- temp

60 s = 7000 : i = 1

70 a = ms

80 IF a(i) > 0 THEN GOTO 300

90 p = (i + i + 3)

100 k = i + p

110 IF k > s THEN GOTO 290

120 a(k) = 1

130 k = k + p

140 GOTO 110

290 c = c + 1

300 i = i + 1

310 IF i > s THEN GOTO 400

320 GOTO 80

400 z = ms

410 PRINT c;

420 PRINT " primes found."

430 PRINT "End of iteration. Elapsed time in milliseconds: ";

440 PRINT z - a

450 END

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