World: r3wp

Timing test - parse 2000 int/decimal

  Parser                    Seconds
  ---------------------------------
  Thune (C)                 0.0008
  Rebol (built-in)          0.0044
  Thune (rebol-style parse) 0.0097   ; work done in ()
  Rebol (parse)             0.0228   ; Just parse - no ()

Timing test on Lua's fib test.

   Language       Seconds
   ----------------------
   Lua 5.0        0.14
   Thune          0.20
   Orca           0.36
   Rebol          0.80

Basics ops benchmark, measured using Ladislav time-blk tools, results 
in seconds:

;REBOL
;getword  0.08612
;setword  0.2006635
;funccall  0.194279125
;make-object  1.750536

;ORCA
;getword  0.072630
;setword  0.133684
;funccall  0.177569
;make-object  0.917472

BTW. I forgot to mention lowe r is better. So, in some instances 
Orca is two times faster than Rebol.

because it is doing less?

No. As you see the benchmark for basic ops shows that Orca is already 
faster in what the interpreter does the most.

So, Orca can now has a full parse implementation?

Pretty much. It is being fine tuned currently

Jaime, is this something that could be compiled for my Sharp Zaurus?

Probably

Hmmm. It's like Core?

It's part of Core, currently

Thanks.

But some things are also nicer. It's designed as an embeddable library

well it can open guis too, no... using QT?

Yes, on Linux. Hm, maybe on Windows as well

I'll have to try to carve out a bunch of time. I've never compiled 
anything on my Z. Sounds like fun though.

Good luck :-)

Thanks....I'll need it.

Yes. It produces GUIs in OSX too. But you need to install Qt.

Compiling in the sharp zaurus requires an GNU environment, and probably 
a boots trap m2->Makefile.

license question: would there be problems in running BSD or proprietary 
licensed scripts on a GPL based Orca?

GPL languages mean that the GPL only applies to the language and 
not scripts.

A GPL word processor does not write GPL documents

unless it includes some of itself in the document, right?

If a GPL word processor printed out the source of the GPL word processor 
?

lets say it includes macros which where part of the word-processor's 
scripting language.

There's a separate group for discussing the niceties of licensing 
:)

hehe got you there  ;-)  I was just being curious... but the same 
applies... would any script which included derived code from any 
mezzanine or structure within Orca be considered GPL?

I would think so.

Yes, but languages that do that tend to have exceptions or different 
licenses for such code

By the way, Orca is LGPL

IIRC their faq says its not gpl, your code is just data.

And as we all know, in Rebol, all code is just data.

Henrik, you can use BSD and proprietary code with Orca. The interpreter 
is just LGPL code. The idea is that any enhancements to Orca must 
be contributed back. But your specific application code can stay 
closed.

Orca is on the DVD of the current issue 82 of Linux Format magazine 
- more or less. A binary copy is included in the Syllable 0.6.1 that's 
on it

Since there are currently no binary releases for Orca, compiling 
it is somewhat difficult, and I do it regularly anyway for Syllable 
and Linux, I decided to provide one. Orca is included in Syllable, 
and a binary package for Linux is now here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/syllable/Orca-0.0.24-1.Linux.i486.zip?download

If you want to spread this link, on the REBOL mailing list for example, 
please do

Or better, use

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55553&package_id=196714

to include future versions

This package was compiled on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, but it should probably 
work on all modern Linux distributions

Does it run on Win32 as well?

Well, not my package, unless you install a Linux emulator

Orca's chatroom http://orca.campfirenow.com/02351
   (Please refrain 
from spam).

3 user limit!

Is it really ?

There are four people logged on at the moment...

4 user limit then!