Visual Basic is for writing programs faster not writing fast programs.
Worrying about cycles in 2 GHZ machines is unnecessary. In VB you have no
control on cycles, timing depends on other applications and which ones have
priority. I know what your saying programming makes you think different.. so
take a week off evernow and then :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "RUFFIN BAILEY" <rufbo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: [stella] A warning to newbies -- every cycle becomes sacred!
> For newbies that haven't written a line of 2600 asm (not that that puts
> you that far behind me), be careful! After you've started counting
> cycles and working with 128 bytes of RAM, it's hard to go back "to real
> life".
>
> Just today I found myself commenting somebody else's code and seeing
> this line of VB6 over and over in a particular function:
>
> If Err.Number <> 0 Then Err.Clear
>
> Hrm. If err.number isn't 0, make it 0. Couldn't you save cycles -- and
> make things easier to count -- by just err.clear-ing each time without
> the if-check? Aren't cycles sacred too? And then the big question has
> to come up, "Are cycles more sacred than bits?"
>
> Of course I think Err.Clear-ing each time makes for easier to read code
> as well, and a simple "On Error Resume Next" followed by a single
> Err.Clear at the end with a restart of error handling (in this case, it
> factors to the same thing) is best, but I'm overly anal when it comes to
> this sort of thing.
>
> Thanks so much, Stella. ;^)
>
> Ruffin Bailey
>
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