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Re: .il code/file questions

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 21, 2004
• 643 views

Kat wrote:

> On 20 Nov 2004, at 16:56, Robert Craig wrote:
>
>> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>> BTW, Rob:
>>> Can we do something like
>>>
>>> }}}
<eucode>
>>> include cool_lib.il
>>> </eucode>
{{{

>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> No. Not yet.
>> There aren't as many people wanting to make shrouded
>> libraries, as there are wanting to make bound or shrouded programs,
>> so I've put that aside for the time being.
>
> It's not so much a matter of a shrouded include as a pre-parsed include
> to save startup time!
>
> Kat

Absolutely! And I asked the question in exactly that context (which Rob
had snipped). Currently, using the Eu 2.5 alpha interpreter, the startup
time e.g. for several Win32Lib demo programs is unbearable for me.
Yes, my PC is older than 3 years, but everything except of Eu 2.5 alpha
runs fine here, and buying a new PC just for Eu 2.5 alpha would mean
"a little" too high price for the upgrade.

The only ways that I see to solve this problem is, to significantly
reduce the parsing time of the new interpreter front-end, or to make it
possible, that pre-parsed code (= IL files) can be included -- maybe
with a new keyword such as "link" rather than "include"?

Regards,
   Juergen