Says Major, I treated this project as I would any other project, going through architecture, design, implementation and testing as if I had to deliver this to a customer. Deep inside you know when you deliver something good. What is different in a contest is that you don t know anything about the level of the competitors. Since I knew that I was up against some of the very best and brightest VB programmers, it was somewhat surprising and very exciting to have won first place. You can t rely on your intuition or something else to tell you where the bottleneck is.
Intuition is very often wrong when it comes to optimization.
You need an automatic tool to do that. The application written by Major was judged the fastest and the number one over all. He credits NuMega TrueTime with making it possible to reduce execution to the smallest possible timeframe. In that capacity, he gave two lectures on optimizing Visual Basic code, including tips and techniques based on his 16 years of experience with Visual Basic. You will get an immediate return on your investment.