From: bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Speed, adding C or PowerBasic to VB
 
dave@powerbasic.com (Dave Navarro) wrote:
 
>> How is PowerBASIC DLL's compared to DLL's written in C when you call the
>> functions from VB (better, easier, faster, slower) ?
>
>Typically faster than C and much easier to write for a Basic programmer.
 
Easier to write, I agree. But faster? I always thought that C's
popularity came mostly because it was, well "virtual machine code". It's
as close to the processor as modern day (OS) programmers are willing to
get.
 
C is also often heavily optimized. Is PB?
 
Have you got any figures, comparing the spead of PB vs. C? If anybody
can get at it, you can. Thanks.
 
	Bart.
 
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