OpenEuphoria

Re: smart interpreter

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 02, 2002
• 412 views

On 3 Mar 2002, at 13:36, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> Hi Tone,
> I understand that you are experiencing long load times for Euphoria
> programs. Can you give us some specific examples of how long things take to
> load? Is it 0-1 secs, 1-5 secs, 5-10 secs or what?
> 
> On my machines, Euphoria programs load so quickly (even win32lib_FULL.ew )
> that I cannot notice it doing so. That is, they load in less than 0.5 secs.

This may have way more to do with harddrive speed than Eu. What PIO 
mode is the hd, etc? There is a huge difference tween my 540meg drive and 
the 10Gig one i bought 3yrs ago.

Kat
 
> -------------
> Derek.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tone.skoda at siol.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 12:45 PM
> Subject: Re: smart interpreter
> 
> 
> > Why is EU different? EU load time is already slower than equal C programs.
> > Load time in EU is more important than in other languages because in Eu
> are
> > written mainly uility programs, and for those you don't want to wait too
> > long to load.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <bensler at mail.com>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 2:23 AM
> > Subject: RE: smart interpreter
> >
> >
> > > Everyone is concerned with load times. I meant in EU. I have yet to see a
> > > program that doesn't load almost instantly, save DB programs and such,
> > > which
> > > isn't affected by EU's load time.
> > >
> > > Besides, I would sacrifice 1 second of load speed for 2 seconds of
> > > execution speed anyday.
> > >
> > > You could translate it with Eu2C, for a price, and some spare time.
> > >
> > > You could also write a keyword syntax checking utility quite easily.
> > > Verify the syntax of all EU keywords. Boolean syntax, and equation
> > > syntax would be a bit harder to check.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > tone.skoda at siol.net wrote:
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: <bensler at mail.com>
> > > >
> > > > > I don't think anyone is concerned about load times with EU.
> > > >
> > > > I am. It's very annoying to wait for programs to load, like Java
> > > > programs.
> > > > You would also have to wait for you program to load when you would be
> > > > writing and testing it.
> > > >
> > > > Couldn't you try to translate it to C with Eu2C and it would report
> all
> > > > errors in your code?
> > > >
> > > >
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