OpenEuphoria

Re: EU Future?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Aug 12, 2000
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Wayne Overman writes:

> What will become of Euphoria when Windows 64 hits
> the market, will RDS step up to the bat?

In Canada we prefer hockey to baseball, but yeah,
we'll be there.  

64-bit Intel and AMD CPU's are coming in a few years,
but I'm sure 32-bit Windows programs will be fully supported
for decades to come, and I predict DOS will be supported
as well, despite Microsoft's attempts to scare people
away from DOS.

When there's an advantage to building a 64-bit Euphoria,
we'll do it.

By the way, the Euphoria to C translator is now
working with Windows programs as well as DOS.
In addition to lots of large DOS programs (such as ee.ex),
I've now translated several large Win32Lib-based
programs to C, and compiled them, and they run fine.
Soon I'll port things over to Linux. I hope to release
something by the end of this month.

The shell.ex benchmark is now 4.5x faster when translated
to C and compiled. sieve.ex is only about 3.2x faster
because the call to repeat() takes the same time
whether interpreted or compiled.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com