OpenEuphoria

RE: v2.5 Opens exw files wayyyy too slow

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Dec 21, 2004
• 606 views

Jason Gade wrote:

> 
> Good point.  How does Euphoria 2.5 stack up against other interpreted
> languages? (I
> don't count Java or C# because they are technically compiled into bytecode.)
> Is it still faster than most versions of BASIC, which is its true competitor? 
> How
> about Python?

What makes you think that Euphoria doesn't use byte-codes that is the
IL and back-end portion of Euphoria ( RDS's version of byte-codes ) 

> 
> 
> How *do* 2.4 and previous versions handle the problem?  Do they execute a line
> of code
> right after it has been parsed and then set a flag when all lines have been
> parsed?
>  How does it work in the older versions and why couldn't it be implemented in
>  the Euphoria
> front end?

Load any large library or program with PD version of Euphoria
and you see the difference between 2.4 and 2.5 

Bernie

My files in archive:
w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.ew

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan