[orca-list] Efficiency/speed of interpreted code (Re: Punctuation, capital letters, exchange of characters and strings, generally error in the design of Orca)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

I'm not sure where the performance of Python fits in comparison to 
native C, but I've had first hand personal experience with Java:

http://research.sun.com/techrep/2002/abstract-114.html

Will

On Apr 8, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Halim Sahin wrote:

> Hi,
> On Di, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:02:24 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:38:51AM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > In fact you mean such a accessibilitty infrastructure is not
> > > performance critical??????
> >
> > With modern processors, yes. My high-end desktop machine will be 
> > typical of
> > what people have in a few years time, as quad-core CPUs become the 
> > norm.
> > Orca and Gnome hardly increase the load average on my machine (two 
> > dual-core
> > Intel Xeon CPUs, 4gb RAM, two SAS drives).
>
> Ok we need now quadcores to have fast accessibility software? Sory that
> is not what most of the users want.
> I have a pentium 4 2400 Mhz with 2 gb ram.
> Under windows my jaws runs very fast and I don't need to buy a new
> machine.
> BTW. I am working under linux since 9 years and have windows as 
> dualboot
> option. Most time linux is running (console).
>
> > Even on my single-core laptop with 1gb of RAM, it's still fast; and 
> > as I
> > pointed out earlier, at some point it will be possible to compile it 
> > to
> > machine code anyway.
>
> Without static type checking there is no need for this!
> The disaadvantages can not be solved this way.
>
>
> > > What about orca's performance in general?
> > > There were some performance improvements last months but comparing 
> > > orca
> > > to ohther screenreaders showws the problem.
> >
> > It depends on whether the problem is actually in Orca or elsewhere, 
> > and what
> > the performance issue turns out to be. Have you submitted a bug 
> > report?
>
> Is this a bug?
> It works only slow!!!!
> And when you search the list I wrote about such problemsin the past.
> BR.
> Halim
>
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