OpenEuphoria

RE: v2.5 Opens exw files wayyyy too slow

• Posted by Mark Gaspar <mgaspar7 at pacbell.net> Dec 21, 2004
• 574 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> 
> RDS had better remove the following statements from their
> 2.5 documents because they are no longer true.
> 
> <qoute>
> * a high-performance, state-of-the-art interpreter that's
>   30 times faster than conventional interpreters such as
>   Perl and Python.
> 
> * lightning-fast pre-compilation. Your program source is
>   checked for syntax and converted into an efficient internal
>   form at over 35,000 lines per second on a lowly Pentium-150.
>   There's no need to mess around with extra "byte-code" files.
> 
> 
>  The Euphoria Interpreter is written in ANSI C, and can be
>  compiled with many different C compilers.
> 
> </qoute>
> 
>  It would be cheaper to use a FREE "C", PASCAL, ASSEMBLER
>  interpeter or compiler available on the WEB to create
>  programs than to upgrade a user's hardware.
> 
>  I can just see a new user downloading my w32engin.ew
>  and trying to load it; saying gee ! I better buy a faster
>  computer so I can use this wonderful library to write my
>  programs.    
> 
>  Once again RDS is asking us to adjust our way of doing
>  things to use their product.
> 
> 
>   When will RDS wake-up to the fact that we are customers
>   not just users.
> 
> 
> Bernie
> 
> My files in archive:
> w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.ew
> 
> Can be downloaded here:
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan</a>
> 

I'd suggest calming down a little here.  2.5 is alpha at this point folks!

Mark