Re: IDE and eu4
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Jul 14, 2009
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The standard library often has forward referencing but any legacy EUPHORIA program will ofcourse not be using it and thus there would be no problem. I'd love to have 4.0 forward referencing and the regex stuff in a dll rather than linking statically. However, when an approach that performs so much better than an artistically superior solution one should compromise and give up what is more artisitically superior in favor of what has more practical value.
I don't think it's going to matter for most programs. The IDE is somewhat of a special case. It's got a lot of code, and really abuses the global namespace. Most files have almost no includes in them.
Did I mention how huge it is? There are several multi thousand line routines. Please reread the last sentence. There are many opportunities to tighten up the code, and it's really quite easy to get the parsing time under control.
Matt
