JB> Hi Hans.

 JB> 09-Mar-04 20:15:24, Hans Andersson wrote to All


 HA> Compiled QuickBasic seems to runs faster the QuickC 2.5 code.
 HA> Odd!!!

 JB> doing what?

 JB>  some things in C are inefficient. eg, printf() isn't exactly the most
 JB>  efficient way to outpuut text... also some string manipulation is slow
 JB>  due to C not storing a length number for each string etc...

 JB>  also some things in C are often done in inefficient ways.

 -=> Bye <=-

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

Mvh. H.A.

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