OpenEuphoria

RE: Coming real soon!

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jul 21, 2001
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On 21 Jul 2001, at 20:45, sephiroth _ wrote:

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> Kat wrote:
> > It's already replaced Basic and Pascal and C and etc for some of us.
> 
> sure, it can replace C but only if you don't want speed, don't plan on 
> getting a programming job or if you want to give up on writing an OS

Thing is, once you add in things like sequences, the C will slow to the speed 
of Eu. I once tried to optimize a garbage collector, so it would run only if the
program was idle, problem was that checking to see if the program was idle 
made the program run slower than the garbage collection at the rate i was 
playing with the strings. I imagine Rob has had this problem in Eu too. I'll 
use Rob's solution,, it works fine, and i can concentrate on getting code 
written to reach my objective.

If i am not mistaken, you can use the translator to make a command.com, 
and you'll have an OS, just build around interrupts rather than C-calls. Much 
like writing timer interrupts, if you do it right you can prioritize interrupt 
execution to any granularity, and set permission flags like *nix. Lets see 
windoze do that.

Kat