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One would have to run a similar BASIC interpreter on this processor to make that a reasonable comparison, and that would only highlight how ridiculously impractical this demo unit is. If you want an computer that you can wrap around a pencil, I bet it could be done simply using a very small conventional silicon chip embedded in a flexible medium. Perhaps some of this technology could help with interconnections.
No, because everyone now has high quality free C / C++ / Rust / Swift / Mojo compilers. Interpreted BASIC was the only thing most end users had on those computers, for quite a few years, until Turbo Pascal and Think Pascal/C changed everything. Professional software was written in assembly language but at the start of the revolution most of the programs that people wrote themselves, or that you saw printed in magazin…
It makes no sense to compare the execution speed of the output of a modern C++ or Rust compiler on one architecture to a BASIC interpreter on another.