Note that this will also trim any multiples of n, so if n = 2 as in the example above it will also trim 4 zeros, 6 zeros, etc.

Your request sounds related to number formatting. Maybe PRINT USING or printf (from C standard library) would be worth a look as well.

The thing I wanted to point out is that linking to ucrtbase directly isn't supported and may cause your application to break in future . I'm aware that you can hardcode the "memcpy" (or any other) exported name in your application right now, but a future version of the DLL may only export ...

Address of memcpy in two locations. I don't really see what is this program is supposed to show us? One thing it definitely shows us is how to NOT use UCRT :P Linking ucrtbase directly is forbidden and might break your application, see https://mingwpy.github.io/ucrt.html for details (was referring ...

maybe something related to scaling? Could be verified by setting scaling to 100% in display settings and testing whether the issue still persists.

but just guessing ...

hm, I only tried a small example program so far. Could you try removing the # inclib "msvcrt" from crt.bi or replace it with # inclib "ucrt" ? is memcpy the only thing from the CRT you use explicitly in your code (not implicitly used by FB internally)? I'm not sure to which exten...

@coderJeff, do you think it would be possible to let FreeBASIC use a newer CRT, if just for a seperate build? The whole FreeBASIC team is doing a fantastic job and I couldn't possibly ask for more. But one can try. I'm not coderJeff :-) but out of interest I tried building a fbc version that links ...

I compiled PCRE about a year ago, feel free to use that: compiled and uploaded the latest version (of the v1 branch), which is currently 8.44 https://users.freebasic-portal.de/stw/files/prog/fb/libs/pcre-844-static.zip tried to use the same config as the older version; untested ; built with gcc 7.3....

A shorter code in assembler will always be faster! That contradicts to the examples shown in the linked CppCon talk above (btw really interesting talk): There are many articles and videos touching this, here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-WPhYREFjk So for example a shorter code could be s...

Out of interest I dug a bit deeper into this topic and learned something new and was reminded of things I didn't think about earlier. So first: it's true that the default FreeBasic build for Windows links to the old MSVCRT already shipped with Windows 95 (verified with Dependency Walker). This has t...

Okay thanks, I may try to code my own memcpy function then. As dodicat already pointed out, memcpy (and all the other basic methods provided by a CRT) are highly optimized and it's very unlikely that you end up in something equally fast or even faster. Thus it doesn't make sense to re-implement mem...

On a side note, Quicksort is only about 6 times faster than Bubblesort and the speed ratio doesn't improve with large numbers of data elements. I was surprised. With Quicksort having an average complexity of O(n*log(n)) and Bubblesort having an average complexity of O(n²) this can't really be true ...

I think fb_MemCopy is just an alias for the memcpy function (but not totally sure about that). memcpy itself is not implemented by FB, but a method of the CRT. You'd have to look into the toolchain's CRT sources. As far as the description of the Winlibs toolchain tells (which is the default one used...

Btw under the hood there must be always a branch :D If the comparison result is used in the calculation directly, as Provoni suggested, there isn't. If this was was related to IIF you're right of course. Provoni, if you really need that kind of optimization (which I doubt a bit) I'd go for an imple...

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