Hey,

I needed to know about how fast Lite-C is by comparison to other languages.

I've heard that Lite-C statements are evaluated on the fly as strings, but now I've heard that it's all precompiled into binary statements similar to C or C++.

The problem is I need to program using a language that is as fast as possible. A language like Java or Actionscript, which is not compiled, is slow, because 99% of your processing headroom is used compiling each code statement from a text string to binary before it is executed. This may be ideal for simple scripts, but, it would not be for something computationally intensive like a genetic algorithm or a physics engine. (My game is using a genetic algorithm.)

Is lite-C just as fast as C or C++ during game runtime? If not, I'd need to go with C or C++.

Thanks for your feedback.

-Steve

lite-c is a real c compiler but it doesn't do most of the optimizations performed by the big compilers such as vc++, gcc,...

i guess on average the speed is about 50% of those (it still should be a lot faster than java and actionscript though). probably comparable to tinyc. but to be sure you would have to do some benchmarks.

Thanks, ventilator.

What would you recommend? Should I write the intensive stuff in a DLL or use Lite-C? Would using a DLL be any faster? Is there another alternative?

for a physics engine it probably would make sense to use object oriented programming so c++ wouldn't only have a speed advantage. it also would be easier to reuse your stuff with other 3d engines later.

so probably i would use c++ for those tasks but not with performance as the main reason.

Thanks again! Being able to reuse code is important. I have the habit of re-writing everything for each project I start, and its fatiguing. I'm trying to break it by putting all code that might be reusable in a common tools folder, separate from the project I originally designed it for.

Although, I'm most likely using PhysX for the physics in this project.