OpenEuphoria

Re: smart interpreter

• Posted by tone.skoda at siol.net Mar 02, 2002
• 408 views

I don't have any eu programs which take long time to load. I just imagine
load time of eu programs is longer than c programs becuase first exw.exe
needs to get loaded then also your own program resources need to be loaded.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: smart interpreter


>
> 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.
>
> -------------
> 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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