OpenEuphoria

I'm back!

• Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com Feb 26, 2001
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Hi people!

You'll never guess what happened to me :(
I had to reformat my HD, and thus lost my internet
setup.
But I couldn't reinstall it all since that ass of a
technician didn't leave me with a driver disk.
So I had to order it by mail :(
Anways, everything's rolling again, and I'm better
than ever since I'm now using IE 5.1 instead of
Netscape 4.

The question on everyone's lips;
How is NightShade prograssing?

Well, it's Excellent to say the least.
Having coded it in ANSI C is a major speed boost.
It parses at 200.000 lines per second, and that's for
a Natural Language system.
I have being coding onit like others breathe air, code
after code after code, and everything works from the
start.
I knew I was a good coder, but *that* good?
Anyways, all i'm doing now is fix a bug in the include
file system, where two identical files being included
were being processed twice.
After t hat, a good lube job on the interoreter core,
and an Alpha of the Interpreter is out the door, wich
currently runs, hold on, 16 TIMES FASTER THAN JAVA!
There is no interpreter out there that's faster than
NS.
The interpreter uses a simple threaded code
implementation, using slower calls instead of jumps,
to keep things portable.
But the real speed gain is in the fact that 1
NightShade symbol might be transformed into 400 lines
of C.
For example: "create a window" will call an internal
window creation routine.

The way it's progressing now, I might get it out
before the Beta-2 release of the translator.

So long folks!


Mike The Spike