[AccessD] Array faster in DLL?

Hi Fred

That son deserves respect! 
It is years ago I gave away my original plastic box with Microsoft Assembler to some local computer nerds collecting rarities.

But how can you handle Assembler today? 
I located these links which may be of interest to some of you:

About HLA, High Level Assembly (contradicting?):
  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8408

Main page of HLA which is free:
  http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/index.html 

Writing DLLs with HLA:
  http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/HLADoc/HTMLDoc/dll.html 

An IDE for HLA, RadASM:
  http://radasm.visualassembler.com

For the next step, MASM32:
  http://www.masm32.com


If this is too much, how about FreeBASIC, a free QBasic compiler that can compile DLLs and use in-line assembler:
  http://www.freebasic.net 

And an IDE for this, FBIde:
  http://fbide.sourceforge.net 

/gustav

  
>>> fahooper at trapo.com 29-10-2005 22:11 >>>
Hi Gustav,

His son, who now works with him, *likes* to program in Assembler (otherwise,
he seems normal). They used it to replace the millions-of-times-called
routines in a ray tracer, which replaces the vector screen display if enough
time elapses to finish the computations. The product is for kitchen design
and, like the others but better, shows what the kitchen will look like. It's
interesting to watch the screen change, it's as though the display changed
to a picture.

Fred

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:34 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Array faster in DLL?

Hi Fred

Sounds interesting and in line with the comments from Mr. PowerBasic
(Stuart).

By the way, how did your brother-in-law write the Assembler version? With a
tool of some sort or directly?
Are you saying he obtained a 50:1 improvement in total compared to VB?
I could probably handle PowerBasic without much trouble, but Assembler is
far away ...

/gustav

>>> fahooper at trapo.com 29-10-2005 00:09 >>>
My brother-in-law, who develops in VB6, has told me that writing his DLL's
in PowerBasic gave him a 10:1 speed improvement. Then, for a couple of
critical ones, he moved to Assembler for another 5:1.