OpenEuphoria

1. Excessive disc activity

• Posted by FredRansom Sep 04, 2009
• 1439 views

The following code failed to execute properly with eui.exe. It initiated so much disc activity that I had to reboot to stop it. After rebooting, I ran it through the Watcom compiler. It executed to completion, but slower than it should have due to excexxive disc activity. This is Euphoria 4 beta 2 running on Vista.

sequence res 
procedure Calc_it () 
	atom sum 
        atom beginning, ending 
	puts (1, "Starting\n") 
        sum = 0.0 
	beginning = time() 
	for x = 0.0 to 10000.0 do 
             sum = sum + cos(x) 
             for y = 0.0 to 10000.0 do 
                  sum += sin(y) 
             end for 
        end for 
        ending = time() 
  
	res = sprintf("%d  %g", {ending - beginning, sum}) 
	puts(1, res) 
 
end procedure 
 
Calc_it () 
integer x 
x = getc(0) 

3. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 04, 2009
• 1397 views

Yeah, they do things a little differently. It looks like I missed some ops that allocate memory into temps in the interpreter.

Matt

5. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by useless Sep 04, 2009
• 1361 views
• Last edited Sep 05, 2009

<moderator: jeremy>

We are not going to get into verbal arguments and assaults. More posts of this nature will be removed as well. If you wish to discuss it you can send a private email.

</moderator>

7. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by useless Sep 05, 2009
• 1263 views

<moderator: Derek>
Parts of this message were not appropriate and have been removed.
</moderator>

There is nothing to discuss. Matt had decided that code in flux, code evolving from a very poor example of how to use Euphoria v4 task scheduler and sockets code <^edited was not a proper demonstration of Euphoria code>. I was simply not deleting all the preexisting code with each release, and i stated repeatedly that news*.ex was preferably to be a demonstration, a series of news*.ex files, of how to evolve from the original into a faster and more streamlined application. If none of the news*.ex had any code shared with the previous version number, how would it show the evolution?

useless

9. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by alanjohnoxley Sep 06, 2009
• 1307 views

Hi Jeremy, I downloaded the latest SVN windows compiled version as per your link. The file indicates its update 2700, but if you execute eui it says v2670. Small issue I know, but I'm sure you don't want to fix something that isn't broke, due to wrong version being indicated ;)

Cheers Alan

11. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by alanjohnoxley Sep 06, 2009
• 1243 views

OK, I fetched v2708, eui is dated 20090905 09:39 pm and has crc32 of D65204DF executing the sample code with this eui gave: CleanUpError malloc failed , here is the ex.err c:\euphoria\demo\testing\test.ex:12 in procedure Calc_it() CleanUpError malloc failed

sum = 10879.78009 beginning = 0.032 ending = <no value> x = 6658 y = 9366

... called from c:\euphoria\demo\testing\test.ex:22

Global & Local Variables

c:\euphoria\demo\testing\test.ex: res = <no value> x = <no value> My dos prompt command line was, from dir c:\euphoria\bin: (where the latest SVN binaries were replaced) eui c:\euphoria\demo\testing\test.ex It took 17 seconds to fail on my WinXp sp3, 2.5Ghz core2 duo. No excessive HDD activity noticed. eui -version still says (r2670) BTW :)

13. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Sep 06, 2009
• 1195 views

alan,

I'm sorry. This is a bug I introduced in 2708 and it wasn't caught till another developer was doing some tests. I am away from my computer right now, so I will not be able to publish a corrected binary for another few hours. Sorry. As soon as I get home, however, I'll put up a new, working eubin. Normally eubin releases are not this difficult, you just got in on a bad run

Jeremy

15. Re: Excessive disc activity

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Sep 06, 2009
• 1226 views

Ok, 2714 is up and should be good.

We test mainly on Windows and Linux, then other platforms get a work out once in a while with unit tests. Some of us call Windows our development home while others Linux, so those are tested pretty well by the devs on a daily basis.

Jeremy