Hi all,

I have two calculators: a Ti nSpire CAS Touchpad and a TI nSpire CAS Clickpad.
All of them have the last OS 3.1.0.392
I want investigate if they have the same execution speed so I wrote a simple program with the embeded editor. This program request as input a resistor value in ohm and gives as output the nearest combination of two resistors. I have wrote the program in way that it makes many for and while cycles and execute for 20~30 seconds before give an output. I have execute this program on the two calcultator and I have find that the Clickpad one is ~3-5 seconds faster than the clickpad one.

Why?

I think that the touchpad one have to spend some time in the touch part of the hardware.

I am right? What You think?

I am not programming with Lua. I am using the editor embedded into the calculator. I think it is Ti Basic or something similar. I am using long for and while cycles in order to magnify the differences in the execution speed. I am not searching for optimize the code. I just wanted to see the differencies between the two calculators with the same OS but different hardware.

Question: I have to refresh my libraries everytime i make a mod to the source code of my program. What do exacltly the refresh? It seems to be a compilation...

I remember from my TI-86 (now dead) that I have to compile my programs before they can be used. If I do not compile a modified program, the old version still work. I think there is something similar in the nspire: the classical compile procedure produce an executable stored somewhere and working even if you cancel the source. I hope someone can explain this.

Could it be that you ran another BASIC prog with a loop in it recently? I remember back in 2010 I ran a program that kept looping and afterward my calc lagged like crazy, like a computer running some process that takes 100% of the CPU.