[Gambas-user] Getting Gambas up to speed.

[Michael Isaac]

It has been my observation that Gambas is rather slow.  I takes gambas 
well over 5 minutes to count to a billion using a simple do...while 
statement.  On my machine that is.  While other language such as c, 
pascal, and java where much faster, between 1 and 4 seconds.  Even 
FreeBASIC (freebasic.net) was about 3.5 seconds.  I really need to know 
if its possible to address this issue.  I halted development on several 
of my projects because they require a large amount of looping and Gambas 
doesnt seem to be up to speed.  You may download any of my sources from 
my website and test them for yourself.  Another example is the DeepSpace 
engine.  I'm trying to get it to handle several (maybe as many as 100 or 
more) objects on the screen at any given time.  But as you can see when 
you start adding objects (dbl click the screen)  the cycles drop way 
down.  Anyway, I have speed issues to say the least.  Any help would be 
awesome.

http://www.mathish.com/michael/files/gambas/

Dont shoot back with something like "use C then", the topic is getting 
Gambas up to speed.

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Thank you
Michael