Re: speed of eu 2.5 + dynamic inclusion
- Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 21, 2004
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Me wrote: > Alexander Toresson wrote: > >> Now that I've tried the new interpreter, I find the parsing speed of it to be >> unacceptable. >> I do normally program everything on my laptop, to make myself able to work >> anywhere. >> It's not very fast. It's a p2 300. And because of that I get another >> advantage: >> I can easily see how a program of mine performs on a slower computer. >> And I expect euphoria to work at an acceptable speed on older systems too. >> Because I care about back-compatibility and I think it's one of the biggest >> factors >> one has to take into account when developing an application. >> >> The first application I developed was a DOS application, intended to run on a >> 486 75. >> I wouldn't dare of doing that now. >> >> Here are the times(p2 300): >> >> Simple win32lib application: 10s startup (eu2.4: 1.5s) >> MEditor: 1 min 10s startup (!) (eu2.4: 3.5s) > > Of course, I also see the disadvantage, but I think it mainly concerns > to: > o newbies > o other people who don't have the binder/shrouder > o the developement process of a program/library > ==> I hope we can inlude "shrouded" IL libraries!! Now I know that this assumption was wrong. Rob reported that we can *not* include pre-parsed code (= IL files) in a program. ( So I agree that for big libraries (such as Win32Lib) there is an unbearable startup time! <snip> Regards, Juergen -- Have you read a good program lately?