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.
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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