Here is a comparison of Amiga MSBasic to a few other well-known systems. The
benchmark is a floating-point/looping benchmark from the March 1983 "Color
Computews" (timings for non-Amigas from the same source).
System — #iterations completed in 30 seconds
Amiga (1-precision) 596
(2-precision) 477
Apple II+ 114
Atari 800 49
Commodore 64 103
Cromemco Z2 (Z80) 97
IBM PC 170
BASIC09
(2 MHz 6809,
pseudo-compiled) 500
Tektronix 4054 520
Tandy Color Comp
(.9 MHz) 87
(1.8 MHz) 176
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I suspect the Amiga looks particularly good since this is a floating
point benchmark — the FP routines seem to be really fast.