On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
I must confess that I don't understand why certain things are sooo much
faster in C than in RB.
That's one to ask Mars
On the other hand, some stuff I understand, but I wish RS would put the
effort into overcoming it. C has always been great with direct memory
manipulation and bitshifting, i.e. arrays of bytes (or chars or longs
or
what have you). RB pushes this stuff through methods of classes like
MemoryBlock and Bitwise, where C probably outputs inline code. It
would be
nice to have some additions to the language that generate tight,
inline code
for certain operations, rather than going through the method dispatch
table
of a class.
True.
That's an optimization that a compiler could do
Or you can do it by hand
Having said that, RS feature request list must be huge.
I'm sure it is.
As long as they keep moving forward on their list, they can have my
subscription. Having a solid
cross platform tool is that important to me.
Having a solid tool is also important to me.
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