[comp.benchmarks] Old MBasic compiler outruns TurboPascal

clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar) (05/06/91)

Ever noticed that Microsoft's Basic compiler v5.35
(1983 or so) outruns Turbo Pascal by at least a 
factor of 2 (!)?.
Surely, it's hardly possible to do any programming
in MBasic, but it's very useable to calculate
Fractals...

Louis