>in a way, it's silly to compare speed at this level. Lingo is an
>interpreted language, and as such is inherently slower than other,
>system-level languages. If speed is a priority, Director and Lingo might
>not be the best choice.
Bhakti, I agree that Lingo isn't the best choice if speed is the priority.
However, I don't think it's silly at all to compare speeds of different
syntaxes within a language. You have to consider a lot of factors in
choosing a development environment--speed of execution, speed of
development, robustness of the environment, cross-platform capabilities,
and so on.
Once you choose an environment, it's certainly legitimate to want to get
the best performance out of that environment. When I wrote mainly in C, I
would look at the compiled code, using a disassembler, to find the most
efficient ways of doing things.
Of course, it's a waste of time to do that with all your code--you find the
bottlenecks, and optimize those.
Regardless of language.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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