AltME groups: search

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

And as for me - I don't really care. All I care about is when ppl 
meet. That helps a lot to be more tolerant, spread a good atmosphere, 
and make friends.

Hey guys ! AltME is cool, but what about using Red lang Google Groups 
to spread the world all reflexion (?) ?

And maybe having new blood, new way of thinking, new point of view 
?
What do you think ?

I think that the language name alone is not the typical query that 
someone would do. Here's two examples:


- Tiobe index relies on "<language> programming" as its search query 
to mesure the popularity of a programming language (see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm)


- For Cheyenne web server (not a language, but uses a common name), 
people coming to the web site with only "cheyenne" as a search keyword 
are very few. A vast majority use "cheyenne server" or "cheyenne 
web" or "cheyenne rebol". Anyway, after been online for a few months/years, 
Cheyenne's web site appeared on first page if you search for that 
word only (while there's really a *lot* of others resources not related 
to this web server).


There's also another point to consider. If the target name is not 
strongly associated with an existing brand or a popular product, 
you'll see a lot of unrelated results on first page (that's the case 
for "Red"). So, AFAIU page ranking algorithm, once Red language will 
spread larger, I'm ready to bet that the cross-reference links of 
Red-related site (and back-references to Red's home site) will push 
it rapidly on the first page, or even in the top 3 list.

Ch'an Buddhism spread to Japan where it became known as Zen

plus ISC opensuze distro was custom distro of the year which spread 
even more the word

About instructions being 256 bit, half can be used to hold constants 
of the types:

- complex! : 2 double
- range! : 2 64-bit int (also pair! in the future)
- tuple! : 14 bytes + length (could be 15 bytes)
- date! : 128-bit in all


The rest is used for opcode, type of constant and a register offset. 
I put a 32-bit filler in, when going from 32- to 64-bit to reach 
a 64-bit boundary. So it should be possible to go down to 192-bit 
instructions without loosing functionality. To reach 128-bit instructions, 
the above constants needs to be spread over two instructions, which 
will hit performance. But it's important to notice, there is room 
for improvements here.


It hasn't been important for me to uptimize in this area yet, so 
that's why it is like this for now, but that time will come.

There is a lot of interest from people from France in REBOL-like 
languages, it seems. The month stats for world-lang.org shows most 
visitor from France, closely followed by Denmark and United States. 
Then Germany, Switzerland, UK, Czech Rep., Japan, Canada and Malaysia.


I should say, that I informed my SAS friend from France about this, 
so he could have spread the word too.