On approximately 7/5/2004 11:23 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jouke Visser:
Different applications are different sizes/complexities, and Mr Arnold appears to have encountered a situation where it isn't fast enough.
OK. Let me rephrase then. First of all I think a Splashscreen is something you define in your program, not something you add when 'compiling' your program.
You are making a distinction between various steps of compilation.
Unless you code in raw PDP-8 console switches, EVERYTHING you add to your program goes through one or more assembly/generation/compilation steps.
So I think that PAR is just one more assembly/generation/compilation step. You seem to think it is somehow special or different than other assembly/generation/compilation steps. That is your privilege.
Secondly, I think anyone should examine different options before suggesting that a feature should be added to PAR.
Certainly all reasonable options should be considered.
Mr Arnold was quite clear that before code that he writes gets executed, that there is a large delay. Since the code that gets executed before the code he writes is the PAR code, he was suggseting that some form of feedback be given to the user that something is happening. He was specific in suggesting a splash screen, and that is a typical, modern, GUI mechanism for providing feedback in exactly the situation he is encountering, so that seemed reasonable to me.
Can you suggest other options that are reasonable?
I'm glad you are having success with the performance of your application.
me too, but that was not my point. I was merely trying to give an example
where a Splashscreen is used in combination with PAR. pVoice is a rather
complete application, which I regularly use to test new or upcoming PAR versions.
I realized that was not your point. But my point was that simply because you found a test case with pVoice that has adequate performance on the tested platforms has no apparant relevance to Mr Arnold's situation. Certainly he has a different application. He may or may not have a different platform. He experiences a different performance characteristic.
What actionable items should be gleaned by Mr Arnold from the fact that your application has adequate performance?
Just my $0.02
And mine...
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