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On 1/3/2024 3:16 PM, Auric__ wrote:
> Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>> On 12/31/2023 1:18 PM, Auric__ wrote:
>>> Compilation speed should not be something that determines your usage of
>>> a language, unless we're talking "hours" (or longer); runtime speed is
>>> far more important.
>>
>> Actually in my particular case it is the compilation speed that bothers
>> me, not the execution speed. In the course of writing the codes I have
>> to compile many many times to remove bugs and correct my mistakes, etc,
>> while after all issues are gone, I would have to wait just once for each
>> run of the executable file. There would be no hurry there.
>>
>> For a two line code in FreeBASIC, I have to wait 30 seconds for it to
>> compile and run... This is way too slow. Imagine when I want to write a
>> relatively involved program how many times and how long I have to wait
>> to do the troubleshooting.
> 
> That's... odd. What OS? What hardware?
> 
> I'm running Windows 10 Pro 22H2 on a 10-year-old Intel i5 @ 3.2 GHz, using
> the current release of FreeBASIC (1.10.1, released Xmas Eve), and this test
> program:
> 
>    dim a as long
>      for a = 1 to 255
>      print bin$(a),""
>    next
> 
> ...takes about 2-3 seconds to compile for both the 32-bit and 64-bit
> versions. The same goes for the DOS version under DOSBox-X. (I don't have it
> installed on other systems to check, but I imagine it would be about the
> same.) So, something must be... uh... "different" about your setup.
> 
> 
> As an aside, if I'm writing for a system like FreeBASIC that doesn't have a
> built-in interpreter or some fast way to do test runs, I usually write in a
> system that *does* -- often Qbasic or Chipmunk Basic -- and then when the
> program works, I make whatever edits are needed to make it work in my chosen
> system and *then* do the actual compile.
> 


Yes, I thought so too that something was wrong with my set up but I 
couldn't find what. My system is old also. I am using Win10 Enterprise 
64 bit on S20 ThinkStation (Xeon x5675, 20 gb RAM). I installed 
FreeBASIC 1.10.1-win64 and for GUI installed FBIde 0.4.6r4.

Wikipedia says FreeBASIC converts the code to C++ then compiles C++. I 
was thinking this conversion of code is what makes it take that long.

I'll try Qbasic to see how it goes.

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