OpenEuphoria

RE: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers What good is Euphoria?

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Jan 23, 2004
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Euman wrote:

> > We've also got translation for added speed (if that ever were an issue).
> 
> That translated code is nowhere near as fast as hand coded C source.

In general with purpose business applications (what I'm talking about)
... speed isn't all that important.  The code only has to be fast 
enough to keep up with the user!
  

> > >Ray wrote:
> > >When you have 500 or 1,000 tables and 20,000 programs it can be
> > >difficult to track down how an invoice number got deleted when it
> > >shouldn't have.
> > >  
> > >
> > Not because of quantity, but because of algorithm.

You're quiet welcome to use record managers to implement huge data
systems.
It doesn't matter how good your algorthms are you'll always have
trouble keeping your database integrity intact.  If you design it 
into your database it will be kept intact by definition.


 
> In alot of cases yes, coders algorythm choice is very important
> Im certain hand optimized C source is faster in most cases than 
> Euphoria.

Again speed is of little importance mostly.

Regards, 

Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com