Hi,

I am considering writing an ActiveX DLL with Visual Basic.

The DLL will perform about 5 million numeric calculations (mostly simple summations) using a small set of input data.

My question is - on a PC of about about 1 to 2 GHZ and (say) 256 MB of memory, roughly how long would 5 million computations take to complete in a VB DLL?

Is this a sensible course of action, or should I consider writing the DLL in another language (e.g. C) for significantly higher speed?

I am relatively new to VB and I have no "feel" for the speed of VB's processing.

Please give me a few pointers on this...

Many thanks.

James

Take a look at this code which performs a total of 15 million simple calculations (and also 15 million simple if-then)


Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim t As Long
    Dim a As Long
    Dim b As Long
    Dim c As Long

    a = 1
    b = 2
    c = 3

    For t = 1 To 5000000
        a = b + c
        b = a - b
        c = a + b
        If Abs(a) > 1000000 Then a = 1
        If Abs(b) > 1000000 Then b = 2
        If Abs(c) > 1000000 Then c = 3
    Next

    MsgBox "finished!"
End Sub



It takes about 2 seconds on my 866 MHz processor with 256 Mb RAM.

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James,

If you are using VB.NET, I have read that there is essentially no speed difference between VB.NET and C#.

If you need to interact with strings in your computations, that might really slow you down. Do you?