Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 15:15:45 11/14/00
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On November 13, 2000 at 18:48:05, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >On November 12, 2000 at 20:24:34, Lenard Spencer wrote: > >>On November 12, 2000 at 18:39:50, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >> >>>On November 12, 2000 at 18:37:38, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >>> >>>>Hi >>>>Thanks for all your answers men,they were very interesting,I see what you mean >>>>Severi,I am finding lots of examples all in C. >>>>Luca I will download your source code and see if it can help me,I am still >>>>undecided as to which language to use,I have done a little programming with C >>>>but must admit I found visual basic a bit easier. >>>>Again thanks for all your answers :-) >>>>Ray MacFadyen >>>Just curiosly if crafty was written in C and also visual basic,how much faster >>>would the C version be? >> >>Depends, is VB an interpreted or compiled language? Compiles to machine code or >>pseudocode (tokenized like the original Pascal)? >Hi Lenard >According to my good book"The complete idiots guide to visual basic6"VB source >is compiled to machine language. >Ray MacFadyen I have read somewhere that the speed of a VB program is of a children bike and speed of C program is of a Fomular 1 race car. And a my friend, who had converted a C chess program into VB one reported that it was 2 - 3 times as slow as C one. However, an old post recommended if you use the professional editor VB, with many options for optimization, the speed could be near the speed of C. Pham
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