RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds?

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds?

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds?

Page: << < prev 1 [2]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds? - 8/20/2010 10:51:07 PM

JonBrave

Posts: 120
Joined: 8/6/2006
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Chet Guiles

It's all Old High Klingon to me.

Oooo, no, no, no...!

"Old High Klingdon" was a typeless language. Quite unsuitable nowadays. Much more likely to be Parallel Object-Oriented Vulcan+#

(in reply to Chet Guiles)

Post #: 31

RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds? - 8/22/2010 2:43:14 PM

impact

Posts: 88
Joined: 2/18/2010
From: Germany
Status: offline

5% can make a huge difference in game programming, where you want to squeeze everything out of your customer's computers you can get.
When I said that using VB.NET or C# wouldn't really make a difference, I was of course referring to the end result, but I assumed that this much was obvious.
That being said, the whole reason for making both languages work with the CLR is that Microsoft wanted something similar to Java (though only targeting MS platforms of course). Offering different programming languages in their VS package, they went ahead and tried to make them all work with the CLR.
The goal behind that was obvious: to make all .NET languages put out code for the CLR that wouldn't be different from each other performance-wise. So that VB programmers could now produce code running as fast as C# code.
Of course there are differences if you look at the IL code both languages put out and seeing as this approach by MS is rather "young" at this point, they still work on eliminating the performance gap, optimizing their IDEs for productivity and improving overall performance.
With VS 2010 and .NET 4 being out, I wonder if they managed to improve the performance. I haven't gotten around to reading a lot about it yet. But in my personal opinion (working with VS 2008) they have done one hell of a job so far.

(in reply to Chet Guiles)

Post #: 32

RE: What Language is used to program Distant Worlds? - 8/23/2010 11:15:42 AM

Kumppi

Posts: 209
Joined: 10/21/2008
From: Somewhere between Sweden and Russia
Status: offline

5% can make a difference. Problem is that there is no 5% difference between VB.NET and C# code in VS 2005. With newer versions of Visual Studio possible performance differences between VB.NET and C# are even smaller.
I really can't comment much about the 5% difference except that the information was given in 2002. So it is pretty old.

Just a couple of pages about the differences between C# and VB.NET.

http://www.dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=mar05_vbvscsharp
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1223660/is-c-code-faster-than-visual-basic-net-code

(in reply to impact)

Post #: 33