[elwes5]

Building fast applications on most platforms is usually possible. But you must play to those platforms strengths. I used to mess with my fellow devs by making toy vb6 apps that worked very quickly (not my favorite environment to work in). It usually meant throwing out tons of junk. Could never pull that trick off with pcode vb applications. That pcode interpreter was just too slow. I would also do this with win/C++ programs you can make surprisingly light applications if you know what your platform does. The mistake many people fall into is just tossing whatever in there and hoping for the best. That works at first when you are spinning up but usually you end up having to do something about it.