Re: Euphoria Object Oriented Programming
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Jan 02, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote: > > No kidding. ooeu compiles to about 200K larger than stock exw under > Open Watcom. That's the difference between including win32lib or not > including win32lib on a bound executable (when no win32lib routines > are used). To me, personally, this is negligible. > I was talking about binding programs not using the 'C' compiler. > > You completely lost me here. How is this not practical? What extra > overhead are you talking about here? There is no extra overhead in the > euphoria code, just in the interpreter or the runtime library. > When you run shroud for 2.4 it stripped out all the unused functions and constants. > > And why are you so concerned about executable size? I find it hard to > believe that 200K would make a big difference unless you're targeting > something embedded, but then maybe eu isn't the right language for that > platform. > Not everyone that uses Euphoria wants and extra 200k that they are not using. If I wanted to use OOP I would use I would use C++. If I want smaller windows programs then I can use MIC's NQA. > > I can understand (and to a certain extent agree with) arguments about the > inherent value of OOP, but this doesn't seem to bear any relation to > what we're talking about here. > > Matt Bernie My files in archive: WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API Can be downloaded here: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan