Re: Some Euphoria questions
> > Every major software industry today deals with speed as if it were a
>holy
> > grail wich must be nurtured. Multi Media is the age we live in, and
>Euphoria
> > can't provide Media features, let alone Multi media features. MP3? Too
>slow.
> > MPEG? Too slow. 3D graphics? Too slow. Internet browser? Too slow.
>
>Excuse me? Eu gets me a page off the net and saved to a disk file, faster
>than IE5
>can, like 2x as fast or more.
>
>Kat
That's prolly because your program does not do what IE5 is doing.
believe me, it isn't even doing half of it.
If you'd take IE5's download code, and translate it to Euphoria, you'd see
the Euphoria code would run slower.
I know what Microsoft's main priority was with Internet Explorer +3.0 and
that was most certainly download speeds.
What else is a browser to do other than download?
MS has great compition with Netscape, so I don't think they'd just slap some
old slow download code in IE 5.0 and call it a night.
IE's download code is presumably caching, recording transfer speeds,
calculating the time left, checking connection integrity every x second
interval, checking free hard drive space, etc.
You might just call a WININET "Download()" function and get it over with,
but that won't work for a web browser. You'd have to keep track of download
speeds, etc. and you can't do that through WININET, meaning you'd have to
code you own connection and download routines.
Also, maybe the server was just busy!!
Mike The Spike
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