Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 07:09:17 06/25/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 13:16:14, Charles L. Williams wrote: >On June 23, 1999 at 10:31:58, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >>On June 22, 1999 at 12:24:42, Jesus de la Villa wrote: >> >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>"C" ofcourse, because it is fast, transportability, and ad hoc for chess >>>programing, very good bit manage. >>> >>>Pascal if you are not the best programer in the world. >>> >>>Make an effort, don't think in basic. >>> >>>Thanks. >> >>Why "of course"? This is rather insulting to Basic I think, and typical of >>C-zombies who cannot see any merit in languages they do not know. The top Basic >>compilers today are not the interpreters of 20 years ago as you seem to think, >>but I doubt you have any experience of them because of your obvious prejudice >>against the language. The best Basic compilers actually generate slightly >>*faster* code than C (and a lot faster than C++) today, and offer all the bit >>operations and inline assembly tools mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The >>*only* advantages that C has are its portability and the amount of example >>source code to be found - in terms of performance, C is a *second* choice, only >>waranted if you need the portability or if you do not feel comfortable with >>anything offering better performance. >> >>Regards, >>Roberto > > > >What Basic compilers offer better performance? If there are some that can turn >out a better executable, please let us know what they are. > > >Chuck Check out the 32-bit PowerBasic compilers, PBCC and PBDLL. They are Windows- based, though, so you don't get the portability of C, although I understand that they intend to develop a version for Linux. However, if portability is not an issue, then if you like Basic you will love these compilers. If you want to use the full graphics capabilities of Windows, go for PBDLL. If you only need text-based I/O, then go for PBCC. They are equal in terms of efficiency, but PBDLL requires more detailed knowlege of the Windows OS, whereas PBCC requires virtually none at all. Roberto
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