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Than you Fred.

A simple question about 32 and 64 bit versions but I've been unable to find the answer here.

PureBasic for Windows comes in 2 flavours, x86 and x64. x86 will run under any version of Windows, but the x64 version will only run with a 64 bit OS. Is this correct?

But what code do these compilers ...

I waited 3 years for this version with doubles.
It was worth waiting, PureBasic is now superb.

Thanks Fred & PB team.

I can't find a fast way to compare one element (memory location) with another 52000 elements. I am currently using an array to hold the 52000 elements but it's too damn slow. Any ideas please? The examples above assume that the large string array you wish to search is ordered in some way. For ...

Thanks Num3, the new help file contains the new commands but not the changes.

It is not easy to spot the changes just by reading the help file so I have searched through the forum announcements and put together a list of changes announced by Fred.

In case this is of help to others:

Beta 2 ...

Thanks, but readme.html seems to be changes 3.94 to 4.0B4
I need changes 4.0B1 to 4.0B11

Whoever updated the PB help file must have a list of changes?

I am trying to convert from PB4.0 beta1 to beta11

So far I have discovered that these commands have changed:

OpenWindow()
EventClientNumber()

Can anyone tell me about other command changes?
Does anyone have a list of changes?

Psychophanta wrote:Geoff, be patient

Yeah OK, fair comment.

Does anyone think a bug free version is achievable? Like a good C compiler, for example?
Does anyone else think this is a worthwhile target?

We are on beta 11 and there are already 60 threads posted concerning bugs and problems. This is depressing. It doesn't look like we are any nearer a stable full release than we were with some of the earlier betas.

Why?

Because we are still adding functionality and making changes when we should be ...

- New autocomplete option for Import functions in the IDE
- New customizable background

Fine, but I think it would be preferable to do only bug fixes at the beta stage and postpone added features until the next full version.

We are at beta 8 and still finding bugs, some of which weren't present ...

all is about one command, which isn't speed critical
Absolutely right, who would need ultra fast string creation?

I reckon that a small subset of a language needs to be fast to speed up most applications.
For example.
1) Loops and conditional tests
2) Array access (ie fast address calculation)
3 ...

Might you seriously demonstrate that to the forum, please?


Read my post, I am not criticising Purebasic, I love it.

I can easily post a little numerical bench test that is faster in GFA than PB but what does this prove? People will say that the test is not representative of typical modern ...

Slower? I've just done a test with my 20+ years old 16 bit GFA (yes, again) - the universal Str-Function is far more than 3 times faster - now I'm a little bit nervous...

Yes, my 16 bit GFA does most things faster than PB, especially numerically intensive software, such as complex calculation and ...

Then just do a search for all "WriteStringN(0," in each app as required,
and check to make sure they're using the correct file number

No, that won't do if it's in a procedure.

You have change the procedure to pass the file #
It will be different for different calling routines.

Realistically ...

Yes, no question, it's brilliant.

I have been holding my breath for doubles for longer than I can remember.

I'ts nice to breath again.