>I think right now we need to get OpenCard off the ground; we don't have
>four months to wait around while I try to get together a nice compiler.
>
>I'm going back to working on the plain 'ol interpreter, which still kicks
>HyperCard's, Surf's, and SuperCard's collective rear ends. I'm not sure
>about MC.
Anthony,
If you're talking about Serf, I wouldn't be too sure. I don't know if you
ever got an opportunity to test it, but it seems to be almost as speedy as
MC. Although its screen redraw seemed to be a bit on the slow end.
>Besides, the JITC is such a mess that it'd probably get Uli to hire an
>asassin for me. I'll put it in the archive folder of the next snapshot;
>anyone wishing to tinker with it may.
I'm a pacifist. I won't hire an assassin (SPELLING!!! GRRRR!), instead
I'll have you set on a diet. You know what they say about vegetarians:
"They're not healthier, they just look older" <g> (BTW, no offense)
>There is still quite abit that could be done for the interpreter, including
>optimizations which could probably double its speed in certain cases.
Then let's get it done. Hope I'll be able to resume work on the file
format soon.
>Now running...
>VAR[0] is 100004
>VAR[1] is 100006
>VAR[2] is 0
>VAR[3] is 1
>VAR[4] is 1
>VAR[5] is 100003
>Time to execute tokenized version and output vars,
>in ticks: 2937
>
>Execution complete. Have a good day.
>
>Now, your probably wondering why I think this is good. After all, it's 49
>seconds instead of one. The difference is the machine it's running on: A
>PowerBase 200 vs. an LCIII. Yep, we've not got a 68K version, too! A lot of
>work to get it though, with all the bugs in SCpp!
Anthony,
Could you do me a favor and do more testing on slower Macs? I mean, almost
everything runs fast on a G3 and the likes, but its the slow Macs many
HyperCard users have (BTW, I just met someone who has HyperCard 1.1,
djeezuz!)
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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