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George Copeland wrote:
> Forgive me, but your attitude is absolutely moronic.  VB is comparable
> to Pascal in every way, except for I/O, which VB handles *MUCH*
> better.  It is interpreted because it makes the executables miniscule
> in size.  Why compile all that window-manipulation code in each
> program when they all do the same thing?  Doesn't this part of the
> project sound like the part that should be written in C and called,
> just like Microsoft implemented it?

A comparison I did between VB and Delphi showed that Delphi's I/O is
several times faster than VB in terms of standard file processing.

Interpreted executables may be miniscule, however they run far slower
than native code.

Whether the window handling routines are written in Pascal or C is irrelevant,
because both are compiled to native code. There are no secondary 'DLL calling' overheads
with Delphi. VB calls VBRUNxxx.DLL functions which call USER.EXE etc functions.

Dave

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