Re: Ver 4.0 start up speed.
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Feb 24, 2009
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I thought that the start up time for version 4 was a result of my code not be efficient so I down-loaded the win32lib and discovered that It took just as much time to load code using win32lib.
The win32lib library has not yet been updated to take advantage of the 4.0 features, so it is still relying on global symbols being present. So it seems that it is still just as efficient as your coding style.
There has be a simple way to tell the parser that once the bugs are out of BIG libraries/programs NOT to scan for forward reference and skip parsing STD libraries just like we can do using 'without type_check' 'without trace' ETC.
I have it on my todo list for win32lib to add the necessary include files to avoid the deferred referencing issue.
A better option for the general case might be to pre-parse files and store them as 'il'-type files which can be directly used by the interpreter instead of the original source files. This concept has yet to be agreed upon by the development team , and I don't know how feasible it might be but on the surface it looks like a good solution to speed up start-up times for interpreted applications.
Isn't there anyone out there that is concern about this start speed ?
I'll assume that this is a rhetorical question and thus ignore it.
