Re: Linking errors
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) 1 day ago
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That said, there's really little to no benefit to compiling a program. It's mostly a waste of time, in my opinion, one that might have been useful when we were running original IBM pc's back in the previous century.
I agree that translating is mostly unnecessary, but I have had a few occasions where I'm doing enough work that it has saved me a lot of time.
You'd think it's the "this will take hours" type of work but no, it's actually the "this takes several seconds" and it's just long enough to be frustrating.
Run the program through the translator and now it runs in half a second, and I can move on to actually using it for whatever I intended.
The only reason someone might have to compile a Eu program would be if they're planning to sell or distribute it to the public. And so far, that has never happened AFAIK.
The binaries for Euphoria itself are built with the translator and distributed to the public. So at least we're eating our own dog food, so to speak.
-Greg
