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Re: The Big Plan - was Euphoria 2.5 Features..... ??

• Posted by akusaya at gmx.net Dec 09, 2003
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R>    - binder (has always been written 100% in Euphoria)
R>      becomes radically simpler, smaller (reduced to 1/10 the size?,
R>      plus shared copy of front-end to produce the IL),
R>      easier to maintain in the future

In addition, I have a tip to reduce the back-end interpreter size,
that is removing the machine_proc/func code that can be replaced by
Windows/Linux API.

The code of the API implementation is only automatically included when
it is used in the program.

So, if the program uses (for example) free_console(), the bound
program will consist of back-end interpreter, free_console.lib and
the program itself. But if the program doesn't use free_console(), the
bound program will consist of back-end interpreter and the program
itself. So it's smaller.

Some machine_func/proc code that can be replaced that I found are:
(win32 only, i don't know linux APIs)



M_FREE_CONSOLE = 54       change to kernel32:FreeConsole


M_SEEK  = 19,
M_WHERE = 20,
M_DIR   = 22,
M_CURRENT_DIR = 23,       change to kernel32: file functions
M_FLUSH = 60,
M_LOCK_FILE = 61,
M_UNLOCK_FILE = 62,
M_CHDIR = 63


M_SOUND          = 1,
M_LINE           = 2,
M_PALETTE        = 3,
M_GRAPHICS_MODE  = 5,
M_CURSOR         = 6,      are these still needed?
M_WRAP           = 7,      maybe these can be changed to
M_SCROLL         = 8,      respective machine-code (for the dos32)
M_SET_T_COLOR    = 9,
M_SET_B_COLOR    = 10,     or to ncurses library/win32 console API
M_POLYGON        = 11,     (in separate file)
M_TEXTROWS       = 12,
M_VIDEO_CONFIG   = 13,
M_ELLIPSE        = 18,
M_GET_POSITION   = 25,
M_ALL_PALETTE    = 27



M_SLEEP = 64              change to kernel32:Sleep



M_GET_MOUSE = 14,
M_MOUSE_EVENTS = 15,       don't know
M_MOUSE_POINTER = 24