Performance in compiled version vs development system version

[mattias@hv]

Hi!

This might be a really stupid questions, however, since I'm no expert at all I'll ask it anyway.

In general, will there be any performance increase if I compile a program compared to running it in the development environment?

Best regards,

Mattias

[Dennis_Knutson]

A LabVIEW program is always compiled. If you build it inot an executable, you remove the diagrams and disable debugging. You might see some moderate speed improvements but in my experience, it's not a very drastic change.

[smercurio_fc]

One thing I'd like to add is that if you're going to see any "perfomance" increase it would be in the startup/loading time of the application, since you're only loading the run-time engine, and not the complete development environment.