I found a couple things when I did a search of NI's site. One is here and there's a couple articles here that might be of interest. I also seem to remember some articles in the trade magazines Test & Measurement World (http://www.reed-electronics.com/tmworld/) and Evaluation Engineering (http://evaluationengineering.com/). You might want to search their sites for articles on the subject. Atlas is pretty old. I first used it some 28 years ago when I was fresh out of college. It was a strictly text based language and the last time I looked, no true Atlas compilers existed. Atlas programs n
eeded to be translated into C or Basic and there was somewhat of a performance hit. The language did have some syntax elements specific to test and measurement (like a setup and a measure command) that probably made sense when it was first created but, imho, is not required any longer. I have no idea if any of the more recent dialects support threading and parallel execution so that's one avenue to investigate in your comparison. I would also think that LabVIEW would give you an enormous benefit in the availabilty of instrument drivers, analysis tools, and all the add-ons.
