Re: Speed of Visual Basic

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From: EE U780935
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:17

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pz7q@Virginia.EDU (Ping  Zhong) writes:
> I am trying to write a program using Visual Basic to do some serious 
> number crunching,e.g. sigular value decomposition of a large matrix.
> The memory problem can be partially solved using the Windows enviroment
> but the speed right now is the major concern.
Visual Basic is an interpreter, so it is slower than compiler. If you want fast
operation, compiler your C / Fortran language program into DLL and call it from
Visual Basic. It is as fast as C/Fortran.

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 Yuh-Fuu Wu                                      National Tsing-Hua University
 e-mail: yfwu@uz.nthu.edu.tw                     Dept. of Electric Engineering
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 Like MS Visual Basic most!                      Taiwan, ROC
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