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dwallen@missinglink.com (Dennis Allen) writes:

>Just getting dizzy from the vapors....  Had my order in November & iit
>was supposed to be by the end of that month.  I can understand
>delays-- hell, i've had me share--, but was just wondering if anyone
>knows what's happening here....

Well this wasn't quite what I expected to see when I noted the Subject.
But perhaps I really want to know is it *for* real?  Has anyone tried
it?  Did it work as you expected?  Would you recommend it to your best
friend, your mother-in-law, innocent bystanders?

I received a postcard today extolling the virtues of the PB/DLL Compiler.
It was on "special" for USD99.00 to 12/31/95 [I assume that's yankee code
for 31 Dec 95?  ;-) ] but the postcard was over-stamped "Offer Extended
For 30 Days" -- presumably until *nearly* 31 Jan 96.  :)  S&H adds USD6.00
to the price in the USA, or USD28.00 for overseas orders.

According to the ads on the card, this PowerBASIC product is a native-code
Basic compiler offering code and data pointers and a built-in assembler.
It creates "industry-standard DLL's using the full power of the 32-bit
instruction set."  [I think those DLLs are plural, not possessive.]

The suggestion is that you should use VB for the interface and forms design,
and PowerBASIC for number crunching etc., and link the two for the final
product of your endeavours.

They give examples of the speed improvement possible (times in seconds):

					VB	VB with PB/DLL
Sieve (500 iterations)			28.67	3.02
BasicPro Long Interger			 7.58	1.09
(1 million iterations)

(I imagine these examples are chosen to illustrate a point.  :-)

It would be interesting to hear from actual *users* of this product as
to how they have found it in practice.  But then, if no one has been
able to buy it yet, that might be asking a bit much.  :)

Cheers,  Ian S.

P.S.  Note followups to c.l.b.v.3rdparty

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