Does anyone know if the EXEs generated under VB4 (or VB3) are true
machine-code executables and not filled with semi-compiled code or
some such thing ? Need to know this in a hurry ....

Thanks and regards.

No, it's not possible with Visual Basic, it never was and never will
be. If you want your EXEs to be fast and small than Delphi is the real
thing.

Once again (just like all prior versions), we have pseudo-code generation in
VB 4.0 16 and 32 bit versions. In spite of a "ground up rewrite" (if what MS
claims is true), they couldn't seem to get a compiler written.

Tim

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VB43 and 4 both compile to P-Code, which require a runtime
library to execute properly.

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(Lim Lai Hock) threw this at us:

It's semi-compiled, as you call it.

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If you can't tell, why does it matter?  

 With all their resources, Microsoft didn't bother.  I guess they
 think the tens of thousands of people who want a VB compiler
 don't matter.  Consider XBasic.  In case you don't know about
 XBasic, it's a fast 32-bit BASIC compiler / IDE / GuiDesigner.
 You can temporarily download the Windows implementation
 for free from ftp.mhpcc.edu - see the message posted in this
 newsgroup that starts "! Temporary - download free" for more
 information about XBasic and how to download.  If you can't
 find the message, ask me by email and I'll email you a copy.

 I've been programming with XBasic for over 18 months now,
 and I currently have, and run my on, all three implementations
 of XBasic - Windows, Linux, and SCO UNIX.  All my programs
 run without a single modification on all implementations, even
 tough many have sophisticated GUIs and tons of graphics.
 On top of everything else, you can make your own controls
 with XBasic, and even add them to the toolkit if you want.
 Who needs VB?  Who needs slow?  Who needs C?
 Not me.  Happy Programming.

 Max Reason

: Does anyone know if the EXEs generated under VB4 (or VB3) are true
: machine-code executables and not filled with semi-compiled code or
: some such thing ? Need to know this in a hurry ....

It has been said on this thread that this generates P-code. as in Psuedo
Code, or the REAL P-Code that we all saw when we took our assemblers/compilers
course at the U. and had to write our own P-code interpreters and so forth?
It is if I recall correctly, a stack language that is loosely an assembly
language, right?
        Man, if the other guy at work even knows about P-code, I'll be
impressed.  He lied about how good he is.  Don't they all?  Sorry, I've
got this huge axe to grind.

-Joe Solinsky
Insurance Tools, Edina MN
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the company, okay?

 I think pcode generally means "pseudo-code" these days, rather than
 the "original" pcode that I think was from UCSD originally.  I'd be totally
 amazed if the pcode in VB3 and VB4 was the same as the "original".
 If you want a full bore 32-bit BASIC compiler with IDE and GuiDesigner,

 I hear they just got a crude web page up on www.basmark.com too.

 Max Reason