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MOD vs AND
« Thread started on: Oct 10^th, 2014, 4:51pm »

Hi,

Just curious.

I know there's a technical difference, but is there a significant speed difference between the use of MOD and AND? The rudimentary test below indicates a slight speed drop when using AND.

Code:

      T% = TIME
      FOR I% = 0 TO &FFFFFF
        A% = I% MOD &10000
      NEXT
      PRINT TIME - T%

      T% = TIME
      FOR I% = 0 TO &FFFFFF
        B% = I% AND &FFFF
      NEXT
      PRINT TIME - T%

When using binary related figures, such as in the case above, is there a specific advantage to using AND rather than MOD? Many times in the illustation programs and code snipits from the various helps, I find that AND is used, where MOD might be used. Is this just common practice?

Matt

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Re: MOD vs AND
« Reply #1 on: Oct 10^th, 2014, 5:31pm »

on Oct 10^th, 2014, 4:51pm, Matt wrote:

is there a significant speed difference between the use of MOD and AND? The rudimentary test below indicates a slight speed drop when using AND.

You seem to have answered your own question: you measured a "slight" difference; whether "slight" is "significant" depends on the circumstances, but I would say usually not.

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Many times in the illustation programs and code snipits from the various helps, I find that AND is used, where MOD might be used. Is this just common practice?

I would speculate that it's because on some older platforms which don't have a native division instruction, like the BBC Micro or BBC BASIC (Z80), you might expect MOD to be quite a lot slower than AND.

Richard.

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« Reply #2 on: Oct 10^th, 2014, 6:51pm »

Thanks, Richard.

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