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Re: General Questions about Euphoria..exe file size minimum

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Oct 14, 2001
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> 1.]  When compiling files to a .exe file, what is the minimun .exe would
> be?  Say my .eu file is 10,000 bytes,
> what would the .exe file size be?

When binding , exe = size of the interpreter (exw.exe 72 kB or ex.exe 162
kB) + size of your program
- space saved by shrouding

When using The Euphoria to C Translator, size may vary depending
on used compiler and optimizations.

> In away I would hate to compile pgm as it would be easier
> to change it uncompiled.  My biggest problem with all this
> is, there are so many pgm files to keep up with.  Altho without "that"
> version pgm file, the pgm itself probably
> would not work.  Compiled into one pgm file (.exe) compiled
> pgm would work every time regardless if I upgraded a pgm
> file.  Example:  Win32Lib pgm file.
>
> 2.]  All these what I call plugins, dll.e as a example
> here, don't they take up alot of RAM memory in general as they are all
> loaded into memory when I turn on pc?

NO, they are NOT loaded into memory at start of your machine,
they are loaded only when an Eu program needing them is
executed and they take only few kBytes, I guess, and after
end of the program, the memory is given back to system.

> When I installed Euphoria just AFEW DAYS AGO now, I notice
> instructions wanted Euphoria to be in path statement.
> Win9x takes up alot of RAM memory.  I hesitated on having
> any more take up memory but am trying it out for the time
> being till I find something else does not want to work.

Putting Euphoria in PATH will lose only few BYTES of memory

> 3.]  Does one really save hard drive
> space by leaving files
> uncompress?
>
> 4.] What about when a pgm file is upgraded (Win32Lib), does
> this mean I have to edit say my blackjack pgm file (bj.eu)
> in order to get my blackjack pgm file to work again?

Depending on changes made to a library, but usually not.

> 5.] What are some of the limitations of Euphoria program-
> ming language?

Euphoria has no limits. Since Euphoria includes ASM,
Euphoria can do anything other lanuages can do. Some
things are easier than in other languages, some more
difficult. The decision is up to you.

    Martin