Talk:Optimizing SmileBasic code/@comment-174.52.102.52-20150323225937

I've made a timer program and was testing around with it and this is something that I found-

Z=5*-8 was faster than Z=-5*8. Can anyone verify this? The sections for the timer are basically just T=MAINCNTL, run the code many times( up to 50000, set by an edit), then set a variable to MAINCNTL-T. Is this reliable? Again, can anyone verify?