[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Correia) wrote:
>On 2:24 PM 2/25/01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> For me the main problem with most of the current editors is the fact
>> the perl interpreter is external to them, they rely on using Apple
>> Events or various work arounds (temp docs) to interact with MacPerl.
>> The best in the performance stakes (for me) is MPW, but (for me) is
>> impossible to change||expand||customise, and it's very apparent that
>> Perl is a guest in the house of MPW.
>
>The apple event overhead should be negligible. The only overhead there
>should be is the apple event manager periodically calling the idle
>prompt while waiting for MacPerl to finish.
For me, speed isn't the issue. It's the fact that MacPerl and BBEdit
are two seperate applications, and you can't have both in front at the
same time. It makes it very difficult to kill a background app that's
out of control, and it means that I can't run interactive apps very
easily if I want to use BBEdit as my editor (which I do want to do).
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