RE: I'm back!
wow. my situation was almost as bad. i caught a virus that destroyed
my windows directory(refresh my memory, is that good or bad?). so,
as soon as i got a new puter, i backed everything that it left up and
installed linux. heheh. anyway, i could use a little help on my
virtual machine. you in? i'll send you the zip if you like.
mtsreborn at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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
>
>
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