Wow. I've been writing some crafty routines here that I thought might pose a performance problem, MetaTalk being an interpreted language and all. For example, I have a message dispatcher system that executes about 50 lines parsing specialized message strings and routing them to appropriate handlers. I just completed the system and put in some benchmarking to measure the performance -- I was totally blown away: less than 1 millisecond (0.4 ms average on a G4/500). I was prepared to spend some time optimizing, but with performance like that I can just paste the routines into the project I'm working on and get back to work. I guess I'm mostly just writing in a dazed stupor: I've never seen an interpreter churn through anything that quickly. I would have been happy with ten times the execution time, but am totally blown away but what I've found. Have you folks had similarly pleasant surprises working with the MetaCard interpeter? Has 2.4 gone through some heavy optimization, or is Mac OS 9.2.1 one helluva upgrade? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _____________________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM:FourthWorldInc Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
