P-code and Native Code

native code is better.

P-code, or pseudo code, is an intermediate step between the high-level instructions in your Basic program and the low-level native code your computer's processor executes.

so.. if u choose p-code; ut again converts each line of ur code to native code , before executing.

but native code... this intermediate converting of line by line is not happening.. thus good performance. cause at compile time it directly compile to native code.

Compiling a project with the Native Code option will fully compile ur proggy to the native instructions of the processor chip, instead of being compiled to p-code. This will greatly speed up loops and mathematical calculations, and may somewhat speed up calls to the services provided by MSVBVM60 virtual machine.

so recomended is p-code.

native code is better.

P-code, or pseudo code, is an intermediate step between the high-level instructions in your Basic program and the low-level native code your computer's processor executes.

so.. if u choose p-code; ut again converts each line of ur code to native code , before executing.

but native code... this intermediate converting of line by line is not happening.. thus good performance. cause at compile time it directly compile to native code.

Compiling a project with the Native Code option will fully compile ur proggy to the native instructions of the processor chip, instead of being compiled to p-code. This will greatly speed up loops and mathematical calculations, and may somewhat speed up calls to the services provided by MSVBVM60 virtual machine.

so recomended is p-code.

i guess you made a type Native Code is better better optimization.

opppsssssssss :o)
RECOMENDED IS NATIVE CODE... NOT PCODE..
darn.. these guys will kill me for that :o) SORRRYYYY :o)

MicroSoft must have had a reason to include p-code, what are the advantages of it ?? is it more portable ? i.e. will it run on Alpha as opposed to x86 or on a ZX81 ???

Smeggy Smeggster.

p-code is indeed more portable than native code, which is one advantage (It should even run on a Z-80 processor provided you can find a VB p-code interpreter for that ;-).
Another one is that the executable size is a lot smaller.
Yet another is that your compile time is a lot shorter.

Actually p-code CAN be faster than native code, but in most cases the native code is faster. I read somewhere that if you do a lot of  databases access can get better performance using p-code. Don't know why but this was the case.

Don't forget the "advanced settings" when you compile, they can really give you some great performance boosts. ;)