Re: speed of eu 2.5 + dynamic inclusion

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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> Of course, I also see the disadvantage, but I think it mainly concerns
> to:
> o newbies

Newbies scared off by slowness => fewer newbies => lesser growth

> o other people who don't have the binder/shrouder

I didn'thave it for a long time, because ordering something from Canada
seemed quite strange to my parents (I'm 16).

> o the developement process of a program/library

This is the point I'm mostly concerned about. Using 2.5 would slow down
my development process significantly.

>   ==> I hope we can inlude "shrouded" IL libraries!!

Why should that be needed, other as a work-around (may I say hack)
for making the start-up for programs faster?

> When you don't want to change the MEditor source, but just want to use
> it like any other editor, then why not use a shrouded/bound/compiled
> version? When I use Word, ConTEXT and whatever else "editors", I always
> run .EXE files.

But what if I want to be one of the MEditor developers? I didn't compplain
about the slowness of MEditor, but of the slowness of eu2.5. It was just
an example.

> > I've also found out that because everything is parsed before the program is
> > run,
> > dynamic inclusion cannot be done, ie writing include statements to a file
> > and then including it. For example, both the jarod library, my asm debugger
> > and
> > a project I currently work on is affected. They simply won't run.
> >
> > It can be worked around for jarod and the asm debugger, though it cannot be
> > worked around
> > for my current project. It includes all *.e files it finds in a specific
> > directory,
> > using them as plugins. And no, don't tell me to compile them into dlls.
> > Because that
> > shouldn't be needed. And I don't own the full translator.
> 
> Concerning this point, I had an idea some time ago (URL might wrap):
> <a
> href="http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=2&fromYear=9&toMonth=2&toYear=9&postedBy=Juergen+Luethje&keywords=%2214+Feb+2004+10%3A54%3A22%22">http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=2&fromYear=9&toMonth=2&toYear=9&postedBy=Juergen+Luethje&keywords=%2214+Feb+2004+10%3A54%3A22%22</a>
> 
> Maybe you can tell me, whether it actually works? smile
> 

That is good idea, though not always usable.

[snip]

/Lex

Shhh! Be vewy quiet! I'm hunting wuntime ewwows!

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