it would be a fair bet the nearly everyone has the runtimes.
the problem with the runtimes is that they are runtimes, not real .dlls
older vb when you compiled it compiled to pseudocode and ran an interpreter. Newer vb versions (5 and 6) have the option to compile to native code, but they still use the pseudocode runtimes. This is one of the main reasons that vb is about 1/6 as fast as c in most applications.

His vbmax compiler will compile to tight assembly which will in theory be even faster than c.

I am all for speed

I wish everyone luck who works on this project