1. Euphoria's 1 byte integers?
One drawback of using Euphoria is that the smallest
variable you can use is 4 bytes.
Say you wanna draw an 8-bit image, you're still
drawing a 32-bit image in a way, and yeah, that's slow
aswell as bulky.
But Euphoria could turn this flaw into its best
feature!
If Rob would COMPRESS sequences!
He can do this with the interpreter aswell as the
translator, because sequences are handled internally
anyways.
You know, just like a Zip File can be 70% smaller than
it's uncrompressed version, so could sequences be
compressed on an 'if possible' basis.
Sure things will slow down a bit, but you can let the
user make the all-famous Speed Over Size choice with
an 'with compression' statement.
Think about it, Rob.
Mike The Spike
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2. Re: Euphoria's 1 byte integers?
MTS writes:
>
> One drawback of using Euphoria is that the smallest
> variable you can use is 4 bytes.
> Say you wanna draw an 8-bit image, you're still
> drawing a 32-bit image in a way, and yeah, that's slow
> aswell as bulky.
>
> But Euphoria could turn this flaw into its best
> feature!
> If Rob would COMPRESS sequences!
>
> He can do this with the interpreter aswell as the
> translator, because sequences are handled internally
> anyways.
>
> You know, just like a Zip File can be 70% smaller than
> it's uncrompressed version, so could sequences be
> compressed on an 'if possible' basis.
> Sure things will slow down a bit, but you can let the
> user make the all-famous Speed Over Size choice with
> an 'with compression' statement.
>
>
> Think about it, Rob.
>
>
> Mike The Spike
You can use arrays in Euphoria with allocate/peek/poke.
Martin
