OpenEuphoria

Re: v2.5 Opens exw files wayyyy too slow

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Dec 21, 2004
• 572 views

Hello again,


I dont think processor speeds are increasing at the same rate as they
have been over say the last five years due to a number of factors,
therefore the assumtion that faster CPU's in the future will solve
the problem might not be valid...at least for any time we feel like
waiting for   Also, the cost for upgrading becomes much more than
the cost of the Eu upgrade or even a full version price even if faster
works.

I'll ask a friend if i can do a few experiments with his 3.2GHz computer
as soon as possible.  The spec's are: 3.2GHz, 512MB Ram, 600MHz FSB.
The system cost was over $1000.00 USD ... something most people arent
going to want to pay for unless they need the upgrade for another
reason too.  400 to 700MHz does an awful lot aside from Eu, but still wont
parse a moderate Eu library very quickly.
I run circuit analysis software pretty quickly at 650MHz (lots of circuit
elements) yet Eu parsing takes a long time.

I think there's got to be some solution other than forcing users
to go out and purchase new machines if they want to run exw files
most of the time...
I noticed that the source comes with the new PD v2.5, so i was wondering
if it would be possible to build a combination parser/executor from
the available code?  This combination would ideally parse in blocks
and allow execution of the individual block before proceeding to the
next block.  The user could have some syntax to force parsing of
sections of code that should be completely parsed before execution.


Take care,
Al

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