OpenEuphoria

Re: Rob: Bug with Windows trasking translator

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Feb 16, 2006
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D. Newhall wrote:

> But at the same time the Euphoria code works and works well so those bug fixes
> and to a lesser extent the optimizations aren't necessary for Euphoria.
> Personally
> I would prefer to not have to press Alt-Enter everytime I run a Euphoria
> program.
> However, it might be worth looking into how previous versions of OpenWatcom
> handle it. If OpenWatcom 1.2 doesn't maximize the window then Rob could
> experiment
> using that.

Yes but Rob had to work around a bug with Watcom 10.6 in the back-end that
slightly affects performance. Euphoria can never have enough optimizations, not
even if it had performance identical to highly optimized C code yet had room for
more optimization. Also, you wouldn't need to press "Alt-Enter" everytime, many
DOS programs are full-screen anyway. As for text-mode apps, people should really
use EXWC anyway. Open Watcom 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc. are all the same way too. This
isn't a bug; if there isn't a way to disable it, then it was meant to be this way
for some reason.

I'd prefer not needing to "Alt-Enter", but I much rather have a 5x speed
increase with DOS pixel mode graphics and a small overall speed increase with
Euphoria. But Robert may find a way to disable it, so we still might be able to
have our apple pie and eat it too.

> For command line only things I always use the DOS interpreter because it's one
> less character I have to type and it's the lowest common denominator for
> Euphoria
> meaning if it works with the DOS version it'll (almost) always work with the
> other ones (except system() calls). I also mess around with FreeDOS alot and
> all our instruments at the place I work at use DOS so I would very much like
> to be able to use Euphoria on those platforms.
> 

Fair enough. I use the DOS one all the time. I'm just saying that it seems it's
popularity has declined drastically with the introduction of Windows, Linux, and
FreeBSD Euphoria.

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Regards,
Vincent