OpenEuphoria

Re: .il code/file questions

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

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 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"?

Juergen:

This is my biggest and only objection to ver. 2.5.
We donate our time to write large usefull programs and libraries
and RDS defeats all our efforts and time spent by coming out with
a product that completely disregards our work.

I have built my w32engin.ew library so that a user only needs
to include this single library with NO EXTRA include file
to build any windows program. It can run win32lib code or
"C" style windows code and can be easily extended.

A user with the public domain version is not going want to
use any library that takes forever to load and parse.

RDS's answer to the snail speed loading problem is to break it
up into pieces and use seperate files depending on what the
user wants to use it for. I don't think I should have to code
my libraries to correct for a problem that was created by RDS.

Whats wrong with RDS solving the real problem  ?

Users of Euphoria are from a world-wide user base and some
of them may not have the money to pay 80 dollars for the
source or buy a fast computer just to run Euphoria at a 
reasonable speed.

It will be just a matter of time when someone that has
ver 2.3 or 2.4 source will decide to write their own back-end
by looking at the source and emulating the back-end.
RDS will then lose control of a good programming langauge;
who wants to see 1500 different versions of Euphoria out
there. Not me.

I only want to see one version of Euphoria that works
properly that has one developer that listens to my
requests which I am willing to pay for.  

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