On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Peter K. Stys wrote:
I tend to agree with Troy. I wrote a complex imaging app for the lab, which could not have been possible without Xcode: RB is just too slow (why it can't be just as fast as C I don't know. Array access, math ops and logical comparisons should be compiled to identical binaries, no?). I can't imagine doing an FFT in RB. I find myself prototyping complex image manipulations in RB, then porting the most-used ones to C for speed (and the speed increase you gain is substantial).
That is why for a nearly ideal situation, you would use REALbasic for the UI and a C/C++ plugin for the CPU intensive calculations. You could write a Photoshop-like program if REALbasic if you wrote all of the image filters and conversion routines in a C/C++ plugin, or even better yet a tool which could be written independent of RB and be able to take advantage of multiple CPU/cores.
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