There are many way to evaluate performance and in many times is irrelevant, but if you want real numbers is simple: find the problem you want to solve and see if your language of choice (I think FB) solves your problem in timely manner. C# it should generate slower code overall but in a small margin...

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I use Open Watcom C++ for most of my C++ work. Since FB already has a GCC code generator, would it be possible or feasable for FB developers to implement an Open Watcom C/C++ code generator? Please discuss. That would be an implementation burden, and after that a maintenance burden. What benefit wo...

My concern is still that VB needs more wrapping. I'm no VB expert. (stronger, probably not even a newbie), so could you elaborate on this? Mea culpa!, was a typo, wanted to say FB: in the point of the answer was just: instead investing in spending time to make a full own toolkit, just add wrapping ...

So the topic goes back to inheritance. Gtk+ proves how inheritance can be defined: define a vtable and with macros. Sounds ugly but is the best short term for someone wanting (for real) to implement it. My concern is still that VB needs more wrapping. As for myself I would pick Qt as is fairly cross...

I remember now the interpreter is the free one with that annoying yellow triangle capped something at the bottom of screen. I tried the site The compiler is still not a freeware . Did you click on the initial link? It is a promotion and they did not put everywhere on the site. That's OK, really. A ...

I think is a man power problem: code is generated and loses some information, and keeps just definitions. The main solution? Is just to provide patches with licenses in headers. In this way things will improve.

The reason that globals are wrong is in general about how we handle big projects; side-effects. Working with globals have some advantages, from them, I can notice that some parts are really easier to achieve: no copies, using pools for textures, various datas, caches. Just passing a connection point...

C is a HLL. There is only one LLL for x86 and that is x86 asm I can say for certain that C is not HLL and just to state this are: function pointers, macro processing, no sane way to get the linker working sometimes (which is much lower level than simply link to a module, as you do with Java's JARs)...

I'm an old C++ programmer ( I program for 10 years + and I do more than 4 years professionally in international companies) and I think too that changing the backend from Assembly to C (C++, objective C) should be great but still a rewrite is the thing that don't work. You want an Object Basic (Free ...

Regarding me, I care about OOP as a fact in today programming and yet I consider that Linq (from C#) is a nice thing but is not mandatory for today. But I say about them, because LinQ is based on Generics (templates from C++). So will be at any time one person that will ask for one more feature. (L...

Hi guys, I say from scratch: I did not wanted to do trolling and to requiest big features. FreeBasic have no target IMO to provide for now OOP and that is right. The bad thing is that the today expectations are around OOP, even they are in most time not to be used. I am one that really think that OO...

Hi all, I have look on FreeBasic status and their updates are decreasing largely in the last year, and v1ctor seems to not contribute to it. I am concerned yet that it will be hard moments tor a compiler to stagnate, based that is doubled by a harsh competition from other opensource projects. My hop...

Linux problems and a long solve. When you compile hello.bas you create somewhere the "hello" binary in your folder (let's say that is your home folder) which is a console based application (in the Windows style of view). In Linux any application is the console application! When you double ...

I say next some optimizations you can do for make a final faster and smarter code for fbc. that are top 7 optimizations: 1 - every power of two operations with constants as multiply/division to integer can be managed by: shifts left and right (to multiply/divide), and for module: and (the power of 2...