I remember that era. The vast majority of "tasks" that were done in BASIC were simple games. It was all-but a toy. It makes no sense to compare the execution s

I remember that era. The vast majority of "tasks" that were done in BASIC were simple games. It was all-but a toy. 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.