Re: v2.5 Opens exw files wayyyy too slow
CoJaBos_temp_account wrote:
> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>
>> Patrick Barnes wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:26:49 -0800, Robert Craig wrote:
>>>> I'm not going to make things more complicated.
>>>>
>>>> 1. If you have a decent machine (less than 3 years old),
>>>> you can probably parse 100,000 lines in 3 seconds.
>>>> 99% of programs are much smaller than that.
>>>> Maybe your scheme would cut that to 1 second.
>>>> Judith's IDE, for example, then takes 3 more seconds
>>>> executing code to initialize itself (nothing to do with parsing).
>>>
>>> Well, many people don't *have* decent machines, and can't afford to
>>> upgrade them.
>>
>> ... or don't want to do so. Am I supposed to buy a new PC, just in order
>> to reduce the parsing time of the new Euphoria interpreter?
>> Some people keep writing, that a new PC only costs about 500 USD.
>
> You can find slightly outdated ones for less. Try ebay.
Why should I do so?
>> Then the upgrade from Eu 2.4 Complete Edition to the Eu 2.5 binder costs
>> for me 524 USD rather than 24 USD. Any further comments necessary?
>>
>>> Otherwise, yes, it's a largely valid point.
>>>
>>>> 2. 2.5 beta parses significantly faster than 2.5 alpha in all cases.
>>>> It's dramatically faster on old machines with small memories
>>>> (64 MB or less) when very large programs are parsed.
>>
>> I hope 2.5 beta will run dramatically faster also on other old machines.
>> My PC contains a Pentiom II prozessor, 400 MHz. Although it's got
>> *256 MB* RAM, promgrams that e.g. include Win32Lib are parsed unbearable
>> slow by Eu 2.5 alpha. I'll have to wait and see, what "dramatically
>> faster" actually means, too.
>
> Remember that Eu 2.5 is still alpha, there is still time for improvement.
That's why I wrote "wait and see". Wait for the beta release.
Understandable?
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Regards,
Juergen
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