OpenEuphoria

1. wxEuphoria and wxWidgets 2.9 is slow

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jan 15, 2012
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Matt,

I've noticed so far in working with wxEuphoria on wxWidgets 2.9, it loads A LOT slower. Have you experienced this? Any ideas? I even tried building with -O3 instead of -O2 to no avail. Perhaps it's the addition of new libraries like wxScintilla, wxRibbon, and wxPropertyGrid mucking things up?

Also, I'm curious... what's wrong with building wxWidgets in monolithic form on Windows? I know on *NIX it's always distributed as separate libraries, but for quite a while we just had one wxWidgets library and one wxEuphoria library.

Are the two at all related?

-Greg

3. Re: wxEuphoria and wxWidgets 2.9 is slow

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jan 15, 2012
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Windows XP Pro - Pentium M 1.8 GHz single-core

Using wxWidgets 2.9 as separate libraries:

$ time eui wxeud.e 
 
real    0m15.156s 
user    0m0.015s 
sys     0m0.031s 

Strangely enough, using wxWidgets 2.9 as a monolithic library takes a bit longer:

$ time eui wxeud.e 
 
real    0m16.015s 
user    0m0.031s 
sys     0m0.030s 

As you can see, either way it takes a good 15 seconds just to load the entire library. Both of these, as well as the wxEuphoria DLL, were built using -O3. I think I'm going to try turning of a few features and see if it starts loading faster again. I'll bet there's some "new" feature in 2.9 that is slowing things down. I might even turn off 2.8 compatibility altogether.

I meant that, I noticed at one point it seems you switched from building just one wxWidgets DLL to many, but I saw no reason to do that. So a better question would be, is one build any better than the other? The entire collection of separate DLLs is about ~30 MB, whereas the monolithic DLL on its own is about 20 MB. It seems wxWidgets got a lot bigger with 2.9, perhaps due to them drawing in previously "external" features.

It looks like there's just two DLLs it links with: libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll. With a monolithic wxWidgets DLL, and the wxEuphoria DLL, we'd still have only four DLL files to ship. I may try cross compiling if I cannot solve the speed issue by paring down the library; perhaps it's a build issue with MinGW.

-Greg