JB> Hi Hans.

 JB> 25-Mar-04 19:17:40, Hans Andersson wrote to Jasen Betts

 HA> I am playing with an old BBS program written i QBasic - reads
 HA> first in - start files - such as, config.dat, lang.dat, lang.ndx,
 HA> runtime.dat, opens a logfile and a members database, reads in
 HA> commands and area menus. Lots of string handling - for writing
 HA> messages and searching for files etc. Have a version written i C,
 HA> it is much slower reading/storing files and handling strings. It
 HA> feels quite slow and the code size is bigger also - about 220k.
 HA> Qbasic is only 150k and much faster

 JB> Yeah I see how that could be slow in C.  strings are 
 JB> one of the weak points
 JB> of C.

 But C also have an extra "API" standard buffer interface layer
over the DOS  disk services, but not basic BLOAD, BSAVE. Output to screen
also uses this
 "interface" - with stdout, stdin etc... getch(), but
_bios_getch... feels  much faster.
  
 But basic should have pointers as C - or C strings like Basic. In C one
 must use lots of code to check buffer over/under run (memory errors) to be
 on the safe side....
 
 Bye H.A.

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