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I Know macros are the compiler simply replacing the source code before the real compileing process appear.
I know to large functions procedures must take place and to the smaller onces a macro can be much faster. But when is it a large function and need procedure?

Asking about speed and size.

Regards

Hi ToastEater,

As in most things in life I guess its a question of balance and control
And as a decision is more likely to emerge when optimizing your code

I think sometimes its more worth avoiding stuff like multiple-dimensional arrays and anything which is beyond your control to really optimize.

I'm a new user to PureBasic....but I'm a 2nd generation core C programmer, where my job was to optimize (other programmers) code. I have seen that many of the old "tricks" are hardly used any more but with some thought you can truly speed things up

Eg strings are a crippler as they are not native to any processor. Fastest operations are with longs usually 1-3 clock cycles with CISC processors. Thus using a pointer to a string when doing many opeartions on string help (eg sorting an array of pointers as opposed to sorting an array oof strings)

of course as a wise man once said
opinions are like assholes...everybody's got one
and pardon my french

kinglestat wrote:Hi ToastEater,

As in most things in life I guess its a question of balance and control
And as a decision is more likely to emerge when optimizing your code

I think sometimes its more worth avoiding stuff like multiple-dimensional arrays and anything which is beyond your control to really optimize.

I'm a new user to PureBasic....but I'm a 2nd generation core C programmer, where my job was to optimize (other programmers) code. I have seen that many of the old "tricks" are hardly used any more but with some thought you can truly speed things up

Eg strings are a crippler as they are not native to any processor. Fastest operations are with longs usually 1-3 clock cycles with CISC processors. Thus using a pointer to a string when doing many opeartions on string help (eg sorting an array of pointers as opposed to sorting an array oof strings)

of course as a wise man once said
opinions are like assholes...everybody's got one
and pardon my french

hehehe
I know i know but mean how long time does it take to the function like

jmp myfunction ; should i do this? and how long does it take to jump to myfunction: label


..
..
.. ; or should i just do my few lines code here


myfunction:
..
..
..
Retn


I know how to program very small lines of assembler, but haven't seen anything there was converted to asm there would use a function like does it push pointers to the variables intro the stack and how much it uses ? i know its small im asking about but still some of my code would be done so much easier with macro's but would it take to much for do it


sorry again and always for my bad english


Thanks a ton