Quoting Marcel Veldhuizen to Lawrence Gordon:
 
 MV> Most EXE's created by higher languages compress very well...
 MV> QB packs them by itself, s you probably know, but not as well as
 MV> PKLite or Diet... PowerBASIC doesn't compress the EXE's so one can
 MV> more easily pack it with a proper packer, that's one of the things I
 MV> like about PB:)
 
I have listened to people talk about the "granularity" of .EXE files created
by PB vs. QB or PDS for several years now and I've never understood why a
smaller .EXE implies "better". If that was really the case, then we should
be programming in assembler or Turbo Pascal. To me, the real issues in
programming are performance and speed. TP may make smaller .EXE files, but
it's string handling performance is a dog compared to PowerBASIC. Turbo C
may make fast executables, but PB's math library is just as fast and much
easier to use. The only real performance issue in the compiled BASICs is in
file i/o, where, admittedly, C kicks butt.
 
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