How does FlagShips speed compare to Clipper?
Benchmarks running on THE SAME EXACT hardware 80486/DX50 shows, that: • The FlagShip language is approx. 20x faster than on DOS (e.g. loops, calculation etc.) • On Multiuser/Network operations, the most often used DBF commands Append, Replace are in FlagShip approx. 2x to 8x faster than on Networked DOS. • On SEEK, FS results are similar to the Clipper’s one. Only the seldom used operations (INDEX, REINDEX) are on UNIX slightly slower – but we are working on it. • The results on DOS are extremely different in single user mode and in the network environment (SET EXCLUSIVE ON/OFF) and are significantly dependent on the loaded network IPX/NETx driver. • FlagShip is optimized for the most usual multi-user mode of UNIX, while Clipper for the single user processing, handling thereby all buffers directly in RAM only. Since in some countries it is not allowed by law to publish benchmark results, we will send you the sources on request, and/or results if your country’s law allows.
