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- From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
- Subject: Re: Speed of Visual Basic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.061744.8962%yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw>
- Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
- References: <1992Nov16.034741.26322@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:17:44 GMT
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- pz7q@Virginia.EDU (Ping Zhong) writes:
- > I am trying to write a program using Visual Basic to do some serious
- > number crunching,e.g. sigular value decomposition of a large matrix.
- > The memory problem can be partially solved using the Windows enviroment
- > but the speed right now is the major concern.
- Visual Basic is an interpreter, so it is slower than compiler. If you want fast
- operation, compiler your C / Fortran language program into DLL and call it from
- Visual Basic. It is as fast as C/Fortran.
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- Yuh-Fuu Wu National Tsing-Hua University
- e-mail: yfwu@uz.nthu.edu.tw Dept. of Electric Engineering
- Hsin-Chu City, 300
- Like MS Visual Basic most! Taiwan, ROC
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