>> 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 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
