olin_piclist@embedinc.com (Olin Lathrop) wrote:
> Just for fun, I wrote an integer to BCD routine to test out this hunch.
> It is indeed significantly more efficient.  My subroutine takes 65
> instruction locations, and uses 4 temporary variables.  The existing
> state of the temporary registers are saved/restored to/from a data stack.
> Execution takes 879 cycles in all 5 test cases I tried.

Try some test cases that actually have some 8s and 9s in them.
I don't see how you can represent a BCD digit in 3 bits.

-- Dave Tweed
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