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Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Timo Labrenz - 05-02-2012 I'm just asking out of curiosity. I definitely don't want to raise the 19BII prices, especially now that my 19BII's battery door latch probably is somewhere in a vacuum cleaner bag... The first example is taken from the calculatorstore website:
A=SIGMA(I:1:5000:1:1) Not such a big difference, but anyway... The second example is from, well, hpmuseum.org and much more surprising:
N-Queens *Using the 17BII solver equation from said web page
How is that possible? Does anybody know? According to HP, the 17BII and the 19BII should be equally fast (15x faster than the 12c).
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Eric Smith - 05-02-2012 The 17BII+ has entirely different innards, so any similarity or dissimilarity of its speed to the 17BII is purely coincidence. The "15x faster than the 12C" is just a generalization, and not representative of any particular function or program. The 12C innards (either old or new) are also entirely different than any of the 17B or 19B models.
The 17BII (non-plus) and 19BII have architecturally similar hardware, and most likely share some firmware. However, differences in the firmware could easily result in some functions taking similar time and others not.
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Gerson W. Barbosa - 05-02-2012 The Saturn microprocessor on the HP-17BII runs at 640 kHZ, as on the HP-42S, I guess. How fast is the clock on the HP-19BII? 1 MHz as on the HP-28C/S or 2 MHz? I wasn't able to find this information anywhere. Thanks in advance.
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Neil Hamilton (Ottawa) - 05-02-2012 According to here, the 17B(II) runs at 1MHz, same as 19B(II), 27S, 28S, and 42S.
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Don Shepherd - 05-02-2012 Here is what Cyrille wrote me in March of 2008, comparing the 17bii with the 17bii+ (I think it is also valid for comparing the 19bii with the 17bii+):
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I think that about says it all, thanks Cyrille.
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Don Shepherd - 05-02-2012 On that sigma from 1 to 5000, I get:
17b - 90 seconds
Edited: 3 May 2012, 9:10 a.m.
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Christoph Giesselink - 05-02-2012 Some of the frequency values noticed on this page were changed on my advice. On the High End Pioneer Series you can read out the current frequency with the internal memory browser.
Press <ON>+<SK4> to enter the memory browser. The HP17BII and the HP19BII use the same CPU. Both have the same multiplier value in the Rate Control register, so both running with the same clock speed. I haven't checked if the firmware is changing the Rate Control register value during calculations, but I haven't watched such behavior in any HP firmware. But some years ago, I compared HP28S with HP42S entry points. Both are RPL machines and should share many internal functions. But I found an entry point (I can't remember which one) doing exactly the same, use the same registers for entry and exit and the implementation in Saturn assembler was completely different! I don't know anything about the development history, but most of the HP28S implementations were used in the following HP48S calculator. So Eric's assumption about different code realizations resulting in different speed maybe become true. An answer could also give the profiler in the Emu42 debugger.
Christoph
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Gerson W. Barbosa - 05-02-2012 Thank you, that's what I was looking for!
Re: Why is the 19BII faster than the 17BII(+)? - Xerxes - 05-03-2012 Thank you for the testing the HP-19BII with this unexpected result.
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