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I decided to revisit the Mandelbrot set, but in assembler to see how much faster I could make it than my Forth version. While I'm not an assembler wizard, I'm competent enough, especially when I reuse code libraries to do the hard part of multiplication.

The net result is that assembler is about 4 times faster than Forth, and about 20 times faster than ehBasic. This makes sense when you consider that much of my code uses a Forth like approach, but with primitives like push or drop in-lined rather than called via a subroutine.

Video: https://youtu.be/W24UmuEV0Uc

Github repo: https://github.com/Martin-H1/6502/blob/master/FunStuff/mandelbrot.asm

The code depends upon a 16 bit math library and page zero stack macros, but the basic flow is understandable without them. So here's the code with the unused 4.12 fixed point removed:
Code:
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Mandelbrot in ASCI art. It uses 8.8 fixed point mathematics in a 16 bit cell
; instead of floating point. It depends upon the stack, math, and I/O functions
; defined in the other modules.
; Martin Heermance <mheermance@gmail.com>
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

; establish module level scope to hide module locals.
.scope

;
; Aliases
;

; Setup constants to remove magic numbers to allow
; for greater zoom with different scale factors.
.alias MAXITER   20
.alias IMAXVAL   $0170
.alias IMINVAL   $FE90
.alias ISTEP   $0010
.alias RMINVAL   $FE00
.alias RMAXVAL   $0110
.alias RSTEP   $000A
.alias ESCAPE   $0400

;
; Data segments
;
.data BSS
.space CREAL 2         ; These variables hold values during the
.space CIMAG 2         ; escape calculation.
.space ZREAL 2
.space ZIMAG 2
.space COUNT 1         ; current escape count

.text

;
; Macros
;
.macro rescale
   lda NOS_MSB,x
   sta NOS_LSB,x
   lda TOS_LSB,x
   sta NOS_MSB,x
   `drop
.macend

;
; Functions
;

; Main entry point
mandelbrot:
.scope
   `printcr
   `pushi IMAXVAL      ; Start iteration at max imaginary
_do:   jsr doRow      ; For each row in the set.
   `printcr
   `pushi ISTEP
   jsr sub16
   `dup
   `pushi IMINVAL
   jsr compare16
   bmi _do
   `drop
   rts
.scend

; For each cell in a row.
doRow:
.scope
   `pushi RMINVAL      ; Start iteration at max imaginary
_do:   jsr doCell      ; For each row in the set.
   `pushi RSTEP
   jsr add16
   `dup
   `pushi RMAXVAL
   jsr compare16
   bpl _do
   `drop
   rts
.scend

; Iterates on a single cell to compute its escape factor.
; input - row and column on stack.
; output - none
doCell:
   jsr initVars
   `pushZero      ; set the loop up for repeating
_while:
   `drop         ; drop status from last iteration.
   jsr doEscape
   `tosZero?
   beq _while
   `drop
   lda COUNT
   jsr toChar
   rts

; stores the row column values from the stack for the escape calculation.
; input - two cells on stack
; output - none
initVars:
   `over
   `over
   `pop CREAL
   `pop CIMAG
   `pushzero
   `peek ZREAL
   `pop ZIMAG
   lda #$01
   sta COUNT
   rts

; Performs a single iteration of the escape calculation.
; input - implicit from memory.
; ouput - true or false.
doEscape:
.scope
   jsr zrSq
   jsr ziSq
   `over
   `over
   jsr add16
   `pushi ESCAPE      ; Numbers >= 4 will always escape
   jsr compare16
   beq +
   bpl _else
*   `drop         ; cleanup the stack and return.
   `drop
   `pushTrue
   rts
_else:
   jsr sub16      ; Squared i yeilds negative, so subtract
   `push CREAL
   jsr add16      ; add real components and leave result on stack
   `push ZREAL      ; 2 * ZREAL * ZIMAG
   `push ZIMAG
   jsr mstar
   `rescale
   `pushi 1
   jsr lshift16
   `push CIMAG
   jsr add16
   `pop ZIMAG      ; Store stack item into ZIMAG and ZREAL
   `pop ZREAL
   jmp countAndTest
.scend

; Compute squares, but rescale to remove extra scaling factor.
; input - implicit from memory
; output - value on stack
zrSq:
   `push ZREAL
   `dup
   jsr mstar      ; rescale by shifting one byte
   `rescale
   rts

; Compute squares, but rescale to remove extra scaling factor.
; input - implicit from memory
; output - value on stack
ziSq:
   `push ZIMAG
   `dup
   jsr mstar      ; rescale by shifting one byte
   `rescale
   rts

; Translate escape count to ascii greyscale.
; input - value in accumulator
; output - character to console.
toChar:
   phy
   tay
   lda _charVals,y
   jsr putch
   ply
   rts
_charVals:
   .byte " ..,'~!^:;[/<&?oxOX#  "

; Increment count and compare to max iterations.
; input - implicit from memory
; output - true or false on stack
countAndTest:
.scope
   inc COUNT
   lda COUNT
   `pushA
   `pushi MAXITER
   `if_greater16
   `pushTrue
   rts
_else:   `pushZero
   rts
.scend

.scend


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