On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:46 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> CPHennessy wrote:
> > On Friday 26 August 2005 20:21, Samuel Murray wrote:
> >>When asked to port his VBA macro to the OOo macro language, the creator of
> >>Wordfast did some tests on the OOo macro language and found that it is 60
> >>times slower than VBA, and therefore only useful for small operations.
>
> > I think that the OOo developers would be interested in his feedback -
> > especially as it may only be one or two functions which really take so long.
> > Besides this, if you have your own macros to port, obviously you should
> > make
> > your own tests.
>
> The StarBASIC engine itself is very, very slow. Much, much slower than
> Perl or Ruby, to say nothing of Java or compiled code.
>
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