Re: Why is compiled basic slower than C? (Basic is the future)

Glenn_Johansson@f313.n203.z2.fidonet.cd.chalmers.se writes:
>1. How much slower is compiled modern basic than compiled modern C?


Are you sure it is?


>2. Why is the basic compilers creating a slower product than the C
>compilers?
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> e. Other (?)


Because C is pretty trendy at the moment and so most of the effort in
improving compilers is going into C. Compiled BASIC has never been very
trendy.


I've usually found a good FORTRAN compiler to be better than any C
compiler. That's not because FORTRAN is 'better' than C, it's just
because a lot of people were once interested in making FORTRAN programs
run very fast, so they spent the money to sort the compilers out.


Paul
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[Fortran is easier to optimize than C, mostly because it doesn't allow a lot
of the aliasing possible in C. -John]
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