[REBOL] Compiler for Rebol ? Re:(14)
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 27-Sep-2000 18:22
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Subject: [REBOL] Compiler for Rebol ? Re:(13)
> On 9/28/2000 at 12:22 AM [handy--techie--com] wrote:
> > By an interpreter I take it you mean parsing REBOL code and mapping
> REBOL commands to JAVA commands and executing them?
>
> A working example of this product category might be the jPhython
> project < http://jpython.org/ >.
>
> Like REBOL, Python is an interpreted scripting language. jPython does
> what you might expect, interpret Python code and spit out bytecodes to
> the JVM, much like cPython would interpret Python and spit machine code
> to the processor.
>
> There's not a snowball's chance of this happening, but if it did, it
> would mean you could encapsulate REBOL scripts within Java programs.
>
> Of course, there may be performance trade-offs, since many JVM's are
> pokey. Using a high-performance Java configuration, people have matched
> benchmarks between jPython and cPython (the conventional C
> implementation). Though, in practice, jPhython is said to be 2.5x
> slower than the mature cPython compiler.
You will have the smallest jvm with Tao (read some reviews at
www.amigasdk.com), and if REBOL/View will run with tao, you run with Java
:-) ...
-pekr-
