I’m a long-time Visual C/C++, VB6 and C# user, and am looking for a new multi-platform RAD system.
There aren’t many viable ones around outside of .NET, so here I am asking questions.
First, are there any documents that give specific details on compiler switches and optimizations? Most of my intended work for this would be DSP and visualizations thereof - terraflops of both double and single-precision math and the graphic means to develop both static and realtime plots. Specific things of interest are (on x86) (1) whether SIMD math is supported and if so what rounding models, (2) for x87 FPU ops what options are available
The next most important question is the performance of graphics primitives. Are any hardware-accelerated methods offered?
Next question is about external library access.
(x86 Windows) : I saw in a doc on this site that there’s a compiler pragma for switching between cdecl and stdcall conventions. Is that pragma a once-per-project setting, or can it be wrapped around prototypes for groups of calls into both cdecl and stdcall functions in the same app?
(x86 Linux) Are .so libraries supported?
(ARM): Are Linux .so libraries supported on RPI?
Last questions, threading:
(x86) I saw threading is supported on Windows, but I didn’t have time to dig in. Is threading supported on Linux? If so is it compatible with pthread, or ??
(ARM) Is threading supported on RPI, and as above what model?
Not all of the above are show-stoppers, but the more positive answers the more inclined I would be to take on the learning curve.
I don’t have the specific answers to your questions, as I left VB far behind many years ago… but I think you will find that anything you could do with VB you can do with Xojo and so much more.
quote=386599:@James Barber I saw threading is supported on Windows, but I didn’t have time to dig in. Is threading supported on Linux? If so is it compatible with pthread, or ??
(ARM) Is threading supported on RPI, and as above what model?[/quote]
Yes to both. All threading in Xojo is cooperative.
Welcome to Xojo! This community is really good about answering questions - especially if you tell us what you’ve tried first and what documentation you don’t understand.
[quote=386651:@Christian Schmitz]Really?
I would say the forum is better than Facebook page!?[/quote]
Oops - I meant Youtube - For Videos :). Xojo Youtube Channel
I don’t know if I’ve ever even visited the Facebook page :).