From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> Efficiency. If you write a DVD player in basic, it'd probably take 12
> terabytes of disk space to store one film  - or three centuries to
compress
> it to divx. Those things become important when doing *a lot* of things,
> which is generally not something that basic is used for.

Ok granted C is known for being one of the faster languages but with todays
cpu's I would think compiled basic would be fine even for a DVD viewer
program. Back in the NT 3.1 days when people were running 32mb 486 systems
I can see the point but with todays computers? I could write a compiled
basic program that could outrun any disk system or IO ports.

Geo.

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