Hi all,

I want to create a pretty data intensive app for storing/searching sports stats and stuff, using VB.NET/SQLCE 3.0. Also since i want it to have a Today plugin i've started learning VC++ wich is, needless to say, pretty more complex than vb.net.

My question is: is it worth while learning all that stuff to gain performance especially regarding DB stuff and POOM. For ex. i have a function that adds all the races/matches for the coming 12 months as appointments in POOM. This takes 5+ minutes to complete (1033 appointments) on the emulator. Another example is retrieving a record from the DB with, say, 5000+ entries. Wich also imho take too long for the user( i must say i have not yet really optimized this stuff, caching the sqlceresult for ex.).

So would this in unmanaged code be any (signifacantly) faster and would the extra overhead of handling memory, longer dev. time, etc etc. be worth while ?