Re: Geometric average: how to compute it: best approach ?

On 19 Lug, 11:49, Raymond Manzoni <raym...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
pamela fluente a écrit :

I saw your Visual Basic code in your answer to Duncan but :

- Visual Basic is a curious tool for someone wanting the fastest
possible code. Perhaps that my prejudices are at work here... but
something more lowlevel (say like C and variants...) seems more
appropriate. I fear VBasic will add further tests to check bounds and so
on and that the 'for each' execution time is not near zero (Well I
didn't look at the assembler/code generated by Basic for a long time so....).


Hi Raymond,

I moved to http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/da56bb17b095883a/#
because since my post did not seem to appear I tried opening another
thread. Google seemed to have big problems yesterday.

Well, probably discussion about language would lead us far away and
this has been discussed a lot on the web.

http://www.vbrad.com/article.aspx?id=63
http://www.vbrad.com/article.aspx?id=65 (Top 10 reasons VB.NET is
better than C#)
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum47/2546.htm (Top 10 reasons C# is
better than VB.NET)

Let me just say that within the (new) Microsoft Framework, langiage is
just a matter of preference and all boils down
to the same code. So there are no difference about performance.
http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html

In my experience I prefer VB and use C# only for unsafe code or
pointers (in graphics). My preference is due to a less "presumptuous"
style, more readibility and a much more intelligent interface within
the Visual Studio IDE (I hate case-sensitivity). But that's just my
preference. Many people prefer C#.
Much like some prefer blonde and other prefer brunette :-).


Hoping some of these points will help you more,


Indeed.


-P

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