Passing Array of Strings Between ViB and C

[Niya]

Oh God....you are really dense. Look at this:-

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Private Sub Test()
    'Lets just pretend this array has
    'data
    Dim numbers() As Integer
    
    For i = LBound(numbers) To UBound(numbers)
        numbers(i) = numbers(i) * 2
    Next
 
End Sub

Are you really going to pretend that the VB compiler would produce native code that would execute as fast as this compiled by a C++ compiler:-

//
void Test()
{
 
    // Lets pretend this pointer
    // points to a list of integers
    int* numbers;
 
    int numElements=1000;
 
    for(int i=0;i<numElements;i++)
    {
        numbers[i]=numbers[i]*2;
    }
 
 
 
}

The VB6 array is a SafeArray. It has to be accessed through COM API calls. The C++ uses simple pointer arithmetic. It should be obvious which one would execute faster. Are you seriously suggesting that this is not true ?