Thread: Native Winxp code

Would be better in the project section of the forums.

Since you mentioned python twice, I'm assuming you really want python badly. This isn't quite the place to ask about, as you'll probably find a demeaning attitude towards python here.

If it's Windows specific, I would personally imagine that you're best off using C, C++, or VB. I would probably recommend .NET but for your objection to that. Since VB has basically been converted to the .NET area, that would probably leave you back to C and C++.

Originally Posted by MacGyver

Since you mentioned python twice, I'm assuming you really want python badly. This isn't quite the place to ask about, as you'll probably find a demeaning attitude towards python here.

Not from me! I don't know that I'd choose it for work with Bluetooth. At the very least, you'd need some native modules.

Bluetooth has a transfer rate of abour 1-3Mbit/s (125-375KB/s). For a modern PC type product, that is fairly slow.

I'm pretty sure that packets are a few dozen to hundreds of bytes per packet, which means that the rate at which the data actually get sent from the processor to the hardware happens in small bursts, and the rest of the time, the processor is just waiting.

A processor for a mobile phone runs about 10-50x slower than the PC processor. It STILL is capable of transmitting audio-data over blue-tooth. Audio data is very sensitive to latency issues, as timing is critical to avoid clicks and gaps in the sound. Ok, so there's probably a bit more effort put into making that work on a mobile phone than you can expect on a PC running Windows.

But I don't really think there is going to be a problem with performance, whatever language you use. After all, the driver level code HAS to be written in C (not C++), since that's the language that kernel level drivers MUST be written in, as specified by MS.

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