OpenEuphoria

Re: Why some people have not upgraded

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Jan 01, 2006
• 509 views

Jason Gade wrote:
> 
(snip)
> Then again, has anyone compared EU 2.5 startup with other languages? Is it
> really
> that bad?

I have a 1,000 line pseuod-COBOL interactive interpreter shell I wrote while on
vacation after christmas. It's parsing time is noticably slow on my computer
taking about 2-3 seconds before the prompt appears. However, I have a perl script
that unzips a file and changes the path in the Windows registry that I did at
work to install a program we developed. The COBOL interpreter source is 3.5 times
larger than the install script but even after being compiled it could only match
the startup speed of the interpreter. So, while the startup speed of the
interpreter has decreased it can still execute a 28K program faster than an 8K
Perl scipt converted with Perl2EXE.


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