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From: aas@velociraptor.nr.no (Gisle Aas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: Why can't we have ... ?
Date: 19 Sep 1994 09:10:50 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway
Lines: 90
Message-ID: <AAS.94Sep19111051@velociraptor.nr.no>
References: <AAS.94Sep15100427@velociraptor.nr.no> <35j89j$3l5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Gisle.Aas@nr.no
NNTP-Posting-Host: velociraptor.nr.no
In-reply-to: olm@Eng.Sun.COM's message of 19 Sep 1994 05:41:07 GMT

In article <35j89j$3l5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> olm@Eng.Sun.COM (Ole Lehrmann Madsen) writes:
>   >1) A Beta interpreter (the compile cycle is sooooo slow)
>
>   Which machines are you using? The compiler has improved a lot recently
>   but there are still someting that can be done to make it faster
>   and Mjolner Informatics is constantly working on improving it.

We are using Sparc stations.  I just tested compiling & linking a
"simple" application (< 1000 lines) on a Sparc station 10.  It took
almost 4 minutes (but only 79u+19s).  This is an application that uses
Motif and the Beta distribution library.

$ time beta confman
Mjolner BETA System version 5.0(1) for SUN-4
...
      351.3 real        79.4 user        18.8 sys  

The following fragments was bound:

Bind fragments in: '~beta/basiclib/v1.4/basicsystemenv'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/sysutils/v1.4/objinterface'
Bind fragments in: 'betaOID'
Bind fragments in: 'RepetitionObject'
Bind fragments in: 'danglingtable'
Bind fragments in: 'ObjectSerializerTables'
Bind fragments in: 'objecttable'
Bind fragments in: 'ptOffsetTable'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/objectserver/v2.1/ObjectSerializer'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/sysutils/v1.4/envstring'
Bind fragments in: 'commError'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/process/v1.4/commAddress'
Bind fragments in: 'container'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/containers/v1.4/list'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/basiclib/v1.4/external'
Bind fragments in: 'repstream/extendedRepstream'
Bind fragments in: 'errorCallback'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/process/v1.4/systemComm'
Bind fragments in: 'RepetitionObjectsTable'
Bind fragments in: 'private/rpc_interface'
Bind fragments in: 'basicshell'
Bind fragments in: 'collection'
Bind fragments in: '/nr/rosmer/u2/beta/containers/v1.4/sets'
Bind fragments in: 'participant'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: 'application'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: 'util'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: '~beta/basiclib/v1.4/file'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/unixlib/v1.4/unixfile'
Bind fragments in: 'partdb'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: 'confdesc'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: 'interfacesChewed'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: '~beta/basiclib/v1.4/timehandler'
Bind fragments in: 'unixerror'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/unixlib/v1.4/unixinterface'
Bind fragments in: 'distsupport'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/xsystemenv'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/distribution/v1.0/xshell'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/distribution/v1.0/remoteRefAsText'
Bind fragments in: 'confman'Code generation.
Bind fragments in: 'events'
Bind fragments in: 'xlib'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/sysutils/v1.4/cstring'
Bind fragments in: 'xtlib'
Bind fragments in: '../xtenv'
Bind fragments in: 'motiflib'
Bind fragments in: 'callbackstruct'
Bind fragments in: 'basics'
Bind fragments in: 'primitive'
Bind fragments in: 'label'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/cascadebutton'
Bind fragments in: 'manager'
Bind fragments in: 'bulletinboard'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/form'
Bind fragments in: 'scrolledwindow'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/lists'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/mainwindow'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/messagebox'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/selectionbox'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/pushbutton'
Bind fragments in: 'gadget'
Bind fragments in: 'labelgadget'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/pushbuttongadget'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/rowcolumn'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motif/texts'
Bind fragments in: '~beta/Xt/v1.8/motifenv'
Bind fragments in: 'private/xtenvbody'
Bind fragments in: 'private/basicsbody'
Bind fragments in: 'confmangui'Code generation.

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¤ Gisle Aas - Norsk Regnesentral                     <gisle.aas@nr.no>