Re: same problem , version 2
- Posted by useless Aug 30, 2009
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Kat,
Is there any reason to keep news.ex and news2.ex? I was going to delete them both and promote news3.ex to news.ex.
Jeremy
Well, only as how i described them above. The existing news.ex fires off external applications of your choice, and shows the downside to blocking system calls. Perhaps someone else will be just as peeved as i was at the lack of speed doing that, and build on news.ex as i did, but have some way to make system() nonblocking. Comparing news to news2 shows the speedup when not calling external apps. Comparing news2 to news3 shows overhead to gui system calls vs getting the searching done.
I thought there was value in that progression being shown. If you are asking which i would use, it's news3, it fetches news with 100% Eu code, which i had a paw in writing. But it does not show how to call an external app which someone else may wish to run instead of fetching news.
useless
