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Re: Interpreter startup speed

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Aug 20, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:

> Pete Lomax wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:10:58 -0700, Al Getz wrote:
>>
>> >Kat wrote:
>> >> Hey, Al, i have a silly suggestion:
>> )
>> >Yes, that is a very good idea :)
>> Yeah, (sarcasm, btw) so you release your new program, but it needs
>> display server to be installed and running first? Why not just bind it
>> and the problem goes away?
>> >On the other hand, i guess it would be simpler to just bind the
>> >program, but i wanted to get away from that because i like running
>> >many of my programs in .exw mode.
>> Oh, you thought of that already, now I'm lost. What you are saying is
>> that _you_ want a splash screen for _your_ program when _you_ already
>> know it will _still_ take 30s to load? Why?
>>
>> Confused,
>> Pete
> 
> Pete, first lets clear up a few things...
> First, having a splash screen only helps pretty much when the
> program will be in the hands of other users and you dont want then
> sitting there wondering where the heck the program is after they
> have d clicked the icon.  This means the splash screen is only
> going to be just so useful anyway, but at least it would be something.

The users would highly prefer an increase of startup speed rather than
having an indicator of an unnecessarily slow startup speed.
Possibilities for increasing startup speed have been shown to you, but
you've rejected them all.

> On the other hand, if 2.5 was as fast as 2.4 for loading nobody
> would have anything to talk about would they?

If, if, ...
If my grandmother had a moustache, she would be my grand_father_. 

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Regards,
   Juergen

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Please excuse my flawed English. My native language is Euphoria.