Re: [MacPerl] Help: where do I find recent versions ofQDOffscreen and QuickDraw

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.54 -0500 01.01.1999, Bart Lateur wrote:
>Anyway; about the speed: why does it take several (around 8) seconds to
>start up? Is it these extensions that need to get loaded? Once it runs,
>the speed seems to be satisfactory.
>
>How fast is this MacPerl GUI stuff, anyway, compared to other
>programming environments?

Well, MacPerl has to load in the shared libraries, and then compile and
execute the perl code in the modules, and then compile and execute the
program.  And in the case of the modules, you could have 6 or more GUI
modules that MacPerl has to compile each time.  I imagine that Perl/Tk
stuff takes a similarly long time to start up each time on a comparable box.

As to speed, it seems to me slightly slower than, say, most X window
managers, but not as fast as a compiled app in Mac OS.  But I can only say
how it feels; I have no empirical data.

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