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What's New / Re: Script BASIC Windows 32 bit - Download Available
« on: March 02, 2017, 08:22:22 PM »
Hopefully others will give Script BASIC a try and share their experience. You can lead a horse to water ...
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And yet SB is the only one of the lot that does what I want it to do in both a straightforward AND a timely manner.
I haven't had a chance to do much with the 32-bit install yet (real life intrudes) but it is both blisteringly fast, and a very easy install. I have seen no problems at all with what little I have done.
Given that I am running windows 7 Pro 64-bit on a moderately scaled workstation:
I think that I would only bother with a 64-bit version if it were available for the other operating systems, and if there were some genuine advantage to a 64-bit version - such as speed, extended precision maths, storage etc. Game writers might have more to say about that, though. I'm not sure what advantages might be available with a 64-bit install.
Going forward, I can see backward compatability with 32-bit processors going the way 16-bit support in Windows has been dropped (and woe betide anyone who actually has 8-bit software for a PC ) - and at that time, I guess a 64-bit version will be necessary.
While I would like to install a 64-bit version, right now, the 32-bit version of SB is perfectly sufficient. (mind you, all of my development is using 32-bit software - VB6, mainly).
My bottom line: I believe that a 64-bit SB install will be necessary at some point, so now is probably a good time to get started - before it becomes the only version acceptable under Windows 11, 12 or whatever. No rush.
Greetings, I made an AUR package for the Arch linux users,
The module uses the same hash algorithm as the ScriptBasic symbol table handling routine. This is routine comes from the page 436 of the dragon book.
The dragon book:
Aho-Sethi-Ulman : Compilers
Principles, techniques, and Tools
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1986