OpenEuphoria

Re: Why some people have not upgraded

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jan 02, 2006
• 539 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
>    Does this mean that you are adding to the size of the interpreter ?

Yes. For instance, exw.exe has increased in size 
from 104,440 bytes to 107,520 bytes because of multitasking.

>    Will this effect the speed ?

For almost all operations, no, though if you try very hard 
you might be able to measure a tiny slowdown with recursion
in the interpreter, but not in translated code. On the other hand,
some programs will run much faster, because it will be easy
to let one task block (and poll) while letting other tasks
proceed to do useful work.

>    Why are you adding a feature requested by 3 or 4 users and just
>    ignore the things that have been requested by many users in the past ?
>    I guess the sqeaky wheel gets the grease and the features that
>    few users need will be added just to please the few.

I do what I think is best, and of course some people are 
disappointed. I don't "ignore" what people want.
You've been on EUforum long enough to know that squeaky
wheels, such as yourself, usually do *not* get the grease.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com