Visual Basic better than C++? Not really, but does anyone know how much slower Visual Basic is than C++? (Using DirectX of course) I am not really talking about complex programs, but simple ones like the DX7 Samples. I guess for the complex ones, how much slower will Visual Basic be when writing the Q3A engine? Hopefully I can get facts and not opinions.

vb with dx is about the same speed than vc++ if you dont have simple programs, but when you need much speed like to do some stuff in real time, not using the hardware, your code in vb wont be as much optimized as with vc++, this can be a couple of times much slower, but if you dont have some algorithm that need to be well optimized, and you really just use functions of dx, you can go with vb