Am 15.02.2006 um 19:52 schrieb Norman Palardy:
On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Peter K. Stys wrote:
and that's exactly what I do, and my argument why Xcode or equiv
will always be necessary. The other point was the constant little
GUI (and other) deficiencies that keep creeping in or lingering
with each RB release that makes our lives very difficult and keeps
RB from being used to build a truly hi-powered killer app like
Photoshop, with or without external C/C++ support for the heavy
lifting.
Maybe I'm way off BUT it would be nice IF REALbasic were more than
capable enough to do this without needing C/C++.
I rarely write any assembler in C/C++ any more because it's just
not necessary for 99.999% of the tasks I use C/C++ for.
Compilers are pretty darned good and chunk out pretty decent code
such that it works more than fast enough for the task without
resorting to writing assembler.
For RB, C and C++ are the "assembler" equivalents. and it will be
nice to get an RB compiler with enough optimizations, etc that C/C+
+ are mostly not needed in the same way.
I wonder, if that would really help much. I suppose, quite some CPU
cycles
get consumed by enourmous amounts of glue code to map RB's event/widget
model to the target event/widget model.
If not, I really wonder, why RB apps - at least sometimes - feel slow
with respect to the GUI, while Cocoa apps generally feel fast.
Anyway, an optimizing compiler would be helpful too.
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