Why take it off line? This is a palm development thread. I found NSBasic to be very slow myself, thus I skipped it and went to C. I would be interested to see how users are finding the new version. Why don't you want us to know?
Jamie "George Henne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:104323@palm-dev-forum... > > >> 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/
