OpenEuphoria

Re: What pushes you away from Euphoria?

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Aug 17, 2006
• 708 views

Hello again,

I forgot to mention one thing before that affects only programs using
v2.5 and not v2.4 .
That is, the time to open a file is much longer with the 2.5 version
and that is not good on my system.  I have a decent system and it's
still too slow.

I realize that compiling everything before running has some advantages,
but it takes away from the time to open and it also doesnt allow you
to put up a splash screen while waiting for the rest of the program
to run.

Perhaps a solution would be simple:
Divide the compile phase into two parts:
1.  First complile a small section of the code to allow a user
    to put up a small splash screen to tell the user it's opening.
2.  Compile the rest of the code as usual.

Doing this wouldnt be hard at all, and would increase the apparent speed
of the language for many users.

When using a large library it just takes too long to open the way
it is now so something should be done.  Who wants to wait for the 
entire lib to compile?  Not me :)

I dont know how the initial code would be sectioned off, perhaps with
START:
  --initial code here
:END

or whatever really.  ANYTHING to get rid of this annoying delay.



Take care,
Al

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