OpenEuphoria

Linux port

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Jun 21, 1999
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The port of Euphoria to Linux is going well.
sanity.ex passes 100% (pixel-graphics test commented out),
and all programs that should run, do run. I'm now using
ed.ex instead of vi for all my editing.

Using GNU C, I've brought the speed up to within
2 or 3 percent of the DOS/WIN32 version (compiled
by WATCOM C). I can probably tweak it a bit more.
Anyway, I measured Euphoria (sieve benchmark)
at over 33 times faster than either Perl or Python
- on their own turf, using the latest major release of both.

There are still some small things that I want to do that
will make life easier for anyone who downloads the
experimental "pre-alpha" release. So hang on for another
week or so.

It will be possible to call C functions in shared libraries,
much like you can in WIN32 Euphoria, but I'll leave that
for the next (alpha) release.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/