CompuServe Messages

You're right, an ADS function ought to perform this task as fast as ACAD does, or even faster <g>. I was talking to LISP, so performance and ease-of-use are still a matter of fact. On the other hand I'm not so enthusiastic about ADS because of some reasons: – There are still versions of ACAD that don't support ADS and they will for some years. – You can port AutoLISP code across platforms in a snap. This doesn't hold for ADS code (at least you'll need another compiler and linker) – There are gigabytes of tested and debugged LISP code. Why rewrite that? – Performance is not a key issue in complex design tasks. E.g. an application of mine (which I call typical) runs 2 minutes with user interaction disabled. In the standard case with user interaction it runs about 20 minutes since the user has to make some design decisions he has to think about. So there's no need to reduce the program's running time to 1 minute and the total time to 19 minutes. – Last point: I'll wait for ADS support of a high level language like LISP instead of low level languages like C or FORTRAN. Dietmar