1. Re: ex bloatware
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:04:21 +1200 "BABOR, JIRI" <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ>
writes:
>Robert Craig wrote:
>
>> * if I change AND and OR to operate in the short-circuit
>> manner, existing programs will break. I had no trouble
>> finding at least 3 programs on the Euphoria Web site
>> that would break if short-circuit were used (since function
>> calls might be skipped).
>
>Small price to pay. Please, break them! Jiri
>
Hmmm, a new keyword, "with short_circut", that would default to "without
short_circut"?? Unless a "with short_circut" is encountered, the
short_circuts are automatically off.
I don't know how valuable short-circuting would be, though. I haven't
done anything that would visibly benefit from it. But that's just me...
As for the ~180k size with EX.EXE's bound programs, I think that for
large programs, the size is very acceptable, but for a small program (say
binding a modified BUZZ.EX for a friend), the size is a bit big. All that
means is that I need to give my friend EX.EXE and shroud all my files to
give him, and include .BAT files to execute the stuff.
Oh, and when it comes to EXW.EXE's bound files, the size is average in
comparison to the norm. Maybe smaller, if the programs were big enough.
(Haven't seen any big Win32 programs yet..... But taking into account how
slowly files grow due to shrouding when bound.)
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