QuickStart Development

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/6/2016 12:12 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 09:05:56PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
>>
>>> 2) Your cost of deployment for customers is a lot lower, since runtime
>>> licenses are cheaper than development licenses.
>>
>> Not sure where this comes into play, since you can have runtimes run
>> the prc files just as well as the tok ones.
>
> Okay, so the only real benefits are what...?  Protecting your source code,
> and maybe a -slight- performance increase by skipping the bytecode
> compilation phase?  (On modern hardware, that's probably not a huge
> benefit, any more than it would be for perl.)

It used to make a huge difference in startup speed for large processing 
tables.  (For example, the Medical Office System would take several minutes 
to start on a Tandy 6000, and only several seconds with Quikstart.)  Not so 
much any more.  The main difference nowadays is protecting your source code, 
as you do not need to distribute it to your clients.

Note, too, that Quikstart used to be a paid add-on.  It's been included as 
part of filePro for quite some time.

-- 
Kenneth Brody