[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #1701: Very Slow 33times pointers l = long@(xxxpointer) notation compared to memcpy(varptr(l), MyPointer, sizeof(gb.long))

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Comment #1 by Benoît MINISINI:

Not unexpected: Gambas is an interpreter, and moreover it checks illegal memory access when using pointer reading functions like Long@(). So things are slower.

I don't know what you want to achieve, but an interpreted language is usually not the good tool for doing such things (copying memory with pointers).

You could have luck with the JIT compiler, but alas at the moment it does not optimize the xxx@() functions. If optimization had been implemented, you would get very good speed.