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Version, Product and Manfiest information may change with new releases of Microsoft Windows. You should consult MSDN for up to date information about using resource files with your application. MSDN About Resource Files.

Executable Size and Compression

The translator does not compress your executable file. If you want to do this we suggest you try the free UPX compressor.

Large Win32Lib-based .exe's produced by the Translator can be compressed by UPX to about 15% of their original size, and you won't notice any difference in start-up time.

The Translator deletes routines that are not used, including those from the standard Euphoria include files. After deleting unused routines, it checks again for more routines that have now become unused, and so on. This can make a big difference, especially with Win32Lib-based programs where a large file is included, but many of the included routines are not used in a given program.

Nevertheless, your compiled executable file will likely be larger than the same Euphoria program bound with the interpreter back-end. This is partly due to the back-end being a compressed executable. Also, Euphoria statements are extremely compact when stored in a bound file. They need more space after being translated to C, and compiled into machine code. Future versions of the Translator will produce faster and smaller executables.

Interpreter versus Translator

All Euphoria programs can be translated to C, and with just a few exceptions noted below, will run the same as with the Interpreter (but hopefully faster).

The Interpreter and Translator share the same parser, so you will get the same syntax errors, variable not declared errors etc. with either one.

The Interpreter automatically expands the call stack (until memory is exhausted), so you can have a huge number of levels of nested calls. Most C compilers, on most systems, have a pre-set limit on the size of the stack. Consult your compiler or linker manual if you want to increase the limit, for example if you have a recursive routine that might need thousands of levels of recursion. Modify the link command in your makefile, or use the -lflags option when calling the translator. For Watcom C, use OPTION STACK=nnnn, where nnnn is the number of bytes of stack space.

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