In today's episode of "Stupid Races Between Old Computery Things," we got my ported N-Queens solver on an Atari 800XL stock BASIC vs. that same computer with Turbo BASIC XL. No modifications at all; the BASIC replacement on a cartridge is more than twice as fast. (this is 20x speed)
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