OpenEuphoria

RE: v2.5 Opens exw files wayyyy too slow

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Dec 21, 2004
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Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> Mark Gaspar wrote:
> > 
> > I'd suggest calming down a little here.  2.5 is alpha at this point folks!
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> 
> I have been around here for 6 years.
> I contributed to the archive and have spent my money 
> to support euphoria so I think I have earn the right to
> complain. 
> 
>   2.5 is a disaster !  
> 

Well, I've been around here for almost 7 years, and I must heartily
disagree.  I haven't really noticed much difference, including on my 
600Mhz Linux box (OK, it's not 233Mhz, but it's still pretty slow compared
to state of the art).  The only time I really notice a slow down is when
I'm using the PD interpreter, especially when it's interpreted.

The parser is a little bit slower (cause it's not hand coded C), although
Rob says that he's got it sped up quite a bit for the beta release.  Most
big programs (i.e., that use win32lib) don't do much until they get to the
end and hit the WinMain, anyway.

There are alternatives to make your code start up faster, too.  Like, 
don't initialize everything at the toplevel, and don't create things
until you need them.  Of course, you could always bind/shroud.  And if
you can't afford to register, you could use my version, which allows this
sort of thing, and my shrouded code seems to start up nearly as fast as 
il files with the RDS backend (but they don't run as fast after that, of
course).  Plus, it's got a better interactive debugger, IMHO.

I've started using the $ and crash_routine().  I've also been using the
PD source a lot (in case you haven't noticed).  I guess I'd have to say
that I'm rather enjoying 2.5.

Matt Lewis