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- From: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
- Subject: Why is compiled basic slower than C?
- Reply-To: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
- Organization: Compilers Central
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:16:15 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <92-08-078@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: Basic, performance
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- Have you examined GFA BASIC for the IBM pc compatible or AtariST?
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- This is German software and can be interpreted or compiled. There are a
- good few lessons to others about how to make GUI programming simple.
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- Development is ongoing.
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- A number of years ago I needed to write a specialist editor/comms program
- on the AtariST. This was done using an early version of the language (the
- compiler arrived with me during writing the program). In a week or so of
- odd moments I succeeded in producing a program with a full GUI, error
- handling (alert boxs etc.). No assembler whatever was needed and
- execution speed was excellent when compiled with comparable execution
- speed to C or Modula2. The same people marketed a serious drafting
- package...
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- What about Basic2C?
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- There are a number of major commercial business packages written in the UK
- which use compiled Basic. They work fine but unless you look or know how
- can you tell the language used?
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- I don't use that implementation of Basic now but it looks much improved.
- (mostly Modula2 or C for pc's, Forth and assembler for embedded)
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- TC.
- E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk
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