I don't believe in those vapes. You just replace one unhealthy nicotine addiction with another, maybe a bit less unhealthy, nicotine addiction. What helped me for was Allen Carr's book, a world wide pandemic and hot tea with rum at the end of the day. I do not miss it now, I replaced it with the mor...

Hi, I cannot help with GTK. There are a few examples shipped with freebasic, see: https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/tree/master/examples/GUI/GTK%2B I can not say how useful they are. I have to install some libraries first. Concerning compiling, you can do: fbc main.bas utils.bas gui.bas -x myprogram ...

@fxm, I tried to follow your thread pooling code, but it looks so complicated, so I made my own. #include "string.bi" const C_GN = 10, C_RD = 12, C_YL = 14, C_WH = 15 const THR_STAT_BUSY = 0 const THR_STAT_IDLE = 1 const THR_STAT_FINISHED = 2 dim as string thrStatusStr(...) = {"Busy&q...

Cool, I think it needs a spaceship in the center and an options to fire engage the warp drive.

With MultiPut @ https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24479 And code: #if __FB_LANG__ = "qb" #define EXTCHAR Chr$(0) #else #define EXTCHAR Chr(255) #endif #include "fbgfx.bi" Using FB dim shared as any ptr src_img dim shared as single di_size=1.0 'Size of destination im...

The performance of Rnd is irrelevant for my application. It would save microseconds on a minutes (of even hours) timescale.

@moderator: This seems to go off-topic.

Maybe to add: If speed gain is your goal.

I see it mostly as a warning: freebasic's variable length strings and multithreading don't work well together. An example of a generated crossword for which I am now using multithreading as I ran out out ideas to speed up the code otherwise: https://github.com/verybadidea/crossword_generator/blob/ma...

What do you have as entry_type? Now with: type entry_type dim as zstring * 32 word dim as string clue 'dim as string word, clue end type With your custom string copy it is indeed faster. But even faster is leaving out the copy, and just use: dim as u8 wpch = entries.entry(ipw).word[ichpw] In the nex...

I haven't done much testing myself yet, but I did notice that switching to fixed length zstring also improves single threaded performance. This is nice but I did not expect that since I use len() at various location which I expected to be slower for zstring. May be this an example where fast CPU cac...

That looks good. Some extra locking going on in normal fb strings for thread safety? I tried a few unsuccessfully things. Among others my non-recursive solver which was performing dramatically bad with multiple threads. It is a pity that we have a low level language but still limited control over th...

The first (with less information) seems better to me. In both suggestions the reference to heap is gone, but in the second 'static storage or program stack' is now mentioned which is confusing if we don't explain the difference between these 2 concepts. Maybe add a link to https://www.freebasic.net/...

@fxm: Is this statement on https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/TutIntroArrays correct? " Static arrays , the arrays described above, are kept on the heap , but dynamic arrays are allocated from the computer's pool of memory. The compiler dynamically allocates memory for the array based on the reques...

I modified the thread 'wordmap_type.recursiveSmart0()' so that it works internally on a copy of the instance passed (copy at the beginning, and copy back at the end) like this (so we lose the monitoring of the progress): ...code... That would not help much, recursiveSmart0() is only called 170 time...

I opened a can of worms, it seems like.
But a known issue, see e.g. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/85 ... ng-Threads or https://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/ ... alloc.html