OK, I just gave QB64 a try. Compiling a single line of: print "Hello world" took more than 1 minute, the result is a 1.4 MB exe which launched its on window a

OK, I just gave QB64 a try. Compiling a single line of: print "Hello world" took more than 1 minute, the result is a 1.4 MB exe which launched its on window and displayed "Hello world". The very same code, compiled with FreeBasic: much faster, much smaller, and a real command line app. Hmmm....