"Mihai Costache" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <long explanation snipped>
>It's all very nice, except it takes 20 minutes (Pentium III 800MHz Win2K >LV7.1)! >I then replace the FOR loop with a formula node and inside that a workmate >of mine writes the corresponding C code to do exactly the same job. >Now it takes 10 seconds! >Is LabVIEW really worthwhile, or do we all need to go back to basics and >learn C? Can you provide a VI somewhere where you show what you are doing? Your explanation is a little difficult to imagine (not your fault as such things are hard to describe at any rate) but I'm sure there are possibilities to actually do that perfectly fast in LabVIEW only, possibly beating even the formula node. The problem is not that LabVIEW is so bad, but rather that it takes so much work from you in such situations that you don't worry about optimal algorithmes in the first place and when you do, it is sometimes hard to see the optimal solution. Rolf Kalbermatter CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]