Which OS are you ?

The only other thing you can compare them to is pocket pc's which are ran under Windows CE, I believe. The Palms run much faster, partially due to the OS and architecture structure. Also, Palm's are programmed in Assembly only, I'm not sure what languages Pocket PCs support, probably MS-C. And to be honest, not much is faster then 'machine language' :smile:

Er. Crono, sorry, but you're wrong on a few counts.

1. Modern pocket pcs run Windows Mobile 2003, not CE. Which is nitpicking of me. Sorry.

2. It depends on what you use them for. You want to run a Flash player, media player, book reader, etc, all at the same time, of COURSE you're going to have it running slower. That said, because Palms support only very limited multithreading (1 or two threads, I'm told) and therefore don't run many programs at once, you'll get faster performance because the processor has to do less.

3. All CPU's are programmed in Assembly only. What a compiler does is convert whatever language you want into machine code (assembler). You can write Palm code in whatever language you want. I believe that Palm OS was largely written in C/C++. Yes, writing your code directly in assembly language may sometimes make your code faster/smaller, but compilers these days perform so many optimisations that it often doesn't matter.

4. What the hell is MS-C? Are you thinking of MS Visual C++? If so, that's a compiler, not a language. But yes, VC++ is a dodgy compiler compared to the alternatives like GCC.

5. Close. Not much is faster than WELL MADE machine code. It's very easy to make an inefficient program in assembly. Trust me, when you spend half an hour wondering why this damn program runs SO BLOODY SLOW THAT-- ahem, yes.

Sorry to be so pedantic, but this sort of thing is my gig.

Des you remind me of Amiga :razz: with that quality question about when co workers make a mistake, do you be quiet, sleep through it, or let rip and destroy them! :biggrin:

/me pets DesPlesda

I didn't let rip and destroy him! I merely.. corrected him :biggrin:

Amiga's rock. We had a 500 when it was new, and it cost us ?500. Well worth the money though.

DesPlesda said:
I didn't let rip and destroy him! I merely.. corrected him :biggrin:

Of course