| From: | John Marchant |
| Date: | 27 Sep 2000 at 07:26:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Egroup Ads Re: AmiBench News |
In a message on 27-Sep-00 09:38:02, Bill wrote:
>> I'm just wondering, ARexx isn't a particularly fast language,
>You can say that again.
>I run the script after downloading mail, it is not quick but is in between
>two other slow events so does not seem too bad.
I reckon it's pretty good. I ran a BBS for 9 years, and 90% of all
menu commands were run on Arexx scripts. Nobody ever said it was
slow, and a few remarked how fast it was. True, I have a 68040 vpu
which helps. And I did call in some C support utils for creating file
lists for display.
But as you've said, it depends on the context activity. If a program
is interactive and constantly waiting for user input, then the time
taken for the user to consider and enter replies will outweigh the
time taken for screen displays.
John
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