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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: Power BASIC
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.153339.237@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 15:33:39 GMT
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- John Strong writes:
- >
- >Okay, here's some more PB tidbits straight from the Zalemeister himself,
- >Bob Zale. Zale is going to be a guest in the American On-Line BASIC forum
- >on the 14th of January (I'm the host). I don't suppose that many here
- >have AOL, but if there is any interest I can provide an ASCII text file of
- >the evening's discussions.
-
- Thanks for posting the list and please do post the AOL discussion if
- at all possible.
-
- I only have two remaining question about PB 3.0:
-
- (1) What kind of overhead do you pay for all the fancy no-limits
- string handling? I mean, do do end up with 20K executables for
- any program which does non-trivial string manipulation?
-
- (2) What does the executable code look like in relation to,
- say, Borland Pascal? Any optimizations (even if very simple)?
- I have yet to see any information on this. (It is not really
- that important to me, but I'd like to be reassured that PB
- generates fairly clean code.)
-
- Otherwise, I think PB sounds like an excellent product.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-