The problem that people have been referring to with VB runtime is the fact that, standalone executable or not, it STILL needs the VB runtime. M$ just bundle it together with the rest of its stuff into one package. As a result its performance is still poor, very poor, compared to Delphi, which truly is a compiled language. VB as a standalone executable is STILL an interpreted language.
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The problem that people have been referring to with VB runtime is the fact that, standalone executable or not, it STILL needs the VB runtime. M$ just bundle it together with the rest of its stuff into one package. As a result its performance is still poor, very poor, compared to Delphi, which truly is a compiled language. VB as a standalone executable is STILL an interpreted language.