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Run Basic much faster than Liberty Basic 4.03

Just for fun, I ran the sieve2.bas example that ships with LB4. I was a little shocked to find that Run Basic finished about 5-7 times faster than LB4 running on my 1-year-old Dell laptop.

The Run Basic time varied between 23-35ms -- and that's on a public server.

LB4 on my Dell Inspiron 9600 laptop varied between 156-172ms. The Dell is running XP and has an Intel Core Duo (T2300 @1.66GHz) with 1 gig of RAM.

I mentioned this on the Liberty Basic Community Forum and Carl had this to say:

"Run BASIC and LB5 are not only using a new development tool, but their design is fundamentally different than older versions."

Run Basic and LB5 will be worthwhile upgrades if only for the speed improvements.

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