> NS Basic's speed depends what you're trying to do. If it's heavy CPU > crunching, C will certainly be much faster (and can be called from NSB). > More typical Palm apps, with forms and objects, don't have that much of a > speed difference since NS Basic makes heavy use of the Palm APIs. With > version 3, NSB is a bunch faster. We also get a good kick in speed when > running on Palm OS 5 devices. Speed isn't a complaint we hear often.
All my program on Shiblon.com are written using NSBasic. There is really no heavy CPU crunching in any of them. When switching between forms and populating fields with data you have to sitch and watch each field populate one by one. You can't say this is heavy CPU crunching, and you can't say it is fast either. I've purchased the upgrade to 3.0. The only thing I noticed was a larger run-time. Nothing was faster so I didn't bother to upgrade any of my programs. > Likewise, the size of the runtime isn't "huge". It's under 100k. There > are other tools out there that have a runtime many times this size. Sure, not huge on a computer, but huge for a palm - especially if developers are compiling them into their apps. That adds nearly 100k to every program. Is it not possible to have it compile actual applications? I've seen it done with Pascal. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
