>> 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.

Let's take this offline. If anyone in the group wants to keep following 
this thread, email me and I'll cc you.

George Henne                                     
NS BASIC Corporation
http://www.nsbasic.com 


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