[Gambas-user] Getting Gambas up to speed.

[Laurent Carlier]

Michael Isaac a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Thank you
> Michael

small test program :
FOR ... NEXT :1.337913000025
DO ... LOOP UNTIL :1.499999780208E-5
DO WHILE ... LOOP :2.90982099995
WHILE ... WEND :2.893097999971

DO ... LOOP UNTIL -> wow !

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Laurent Carlier
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