Re: Why is NetcPlus so sloooooooow?

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From: Ian Staples
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:00

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chris@abint.demon.co.uk (Chris Jones) writes:

><david.hedges@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

>>As to speed I have run it in parallel to Agent to download exactly the
>>same newsgroups at the same time, and can detect no speed difference
>>
>Really!  NetcPlus is a Visual Basic program.  There IS a speed
>difference.  This point is self evident to any programmer (as I am),
>unless the people at NetcPlus have somehow got 110% performance out of
>this language.

Given that on a good day you might be able to download at full
modem speed (say 28.8K bits/sec) I should have thought that even
a program written in GW Basic would give the same performance as
one written in any other language of your choice.   :-)

But I'm happy to be corrected on this.

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: Why is NetcPlus so sloooooooow?
Date: 1996/12/26
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