OpenEuphoria

Re: Sequence-Atom-DLL

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jun 03, 2003
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C. K. Lester wrote:
> Why make anything a .DLL? I'm guessing there's a speed-up in execution of
> the code? Is that the only benefit... speed?

You have to compare it with simply making your library
source available as an include file.

In .dll form ...

Your library will execute faster, even for people who
don't use the Translator.

Your source code will be well hidden.
It will actually be better hidden than if you wrote the library
in C and compiled to machine code, since the Euphoria to C
translation makes the mapping from source to machine code even
more obscure. (you could also use the shrouder to hide your code).

Your code will be immune to changes in other include files.

Your library might be usable by a program written in
another language. Although as we've seen, there are
some issues there.

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