Re: speed of eu 2.5 + dynamic inclusion
- Posted by Alexander Toresson <toressonodakra at swipnet.se> Nov 22, 2004
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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? > That is good idea, though not always usable. [snip] /Lex Shhh! Be vewy quiet! I'm hunting wuntime ewwows!