Interesting question. I remember someone on this nug mentioning a while back that PowerBasic Produces very tight and speedy executables and was used by many people in science and engineering industries.
It would be cool if RB could be tune its compiler to run like a "bat out of hell" like PowerBasic apparently does. Now of course PowerBasic doesn't do OOP which is one reason why it can beat RB in speed. Since one of your respondents atated he could only get to 2/3 of the speed of the equivalent FORTRAN code it would be great if the RB compiler could be "tuned" in this regard to make RB more appealing to the science community. For my own "two penneth" what would be really cool performance wise would be if RB could be made optimisable for DSP signal processing applications. IE to take advantage of and optimise for the Altivec and Core2 Due DSP oriented instruction sets where applicable. Maybe some language enhancements ( "hints" etc ) might help in this area too. On 24/8/06 14:35, "John Kubie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a scientist (Behavioral Neuroscience) and have used REALbasic for > several years. While REALbasic certainly is not a traditional > scientific programming environment, I've found that I can be very > productive. I've been able to throw together useful tools in as > little as an hour and made applications for a surprising variety of > tasks. > > My questions: > > How large is the REALbasic scientific community? > > What are others' thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of > REALbasic as a scientific platform? > > What should REALbasic, or its community, do to aid in cooperation > among science-oriented programmers? > > John Kubie > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
