[REBOL] Re: Opening a new blog about Rebol?
From: petr:krenzelok:seznam:cz at: 20-Nov-2007 7:43
Peter Wood napsal(a):
> John
>
> Whilst Rebol is stored in a small file once loaded it uses a lot of memory.
> Far too much to work under Palm OS which is why there has never been a Palm
> version of Rebol.
>
I think that problem was also the porting effort. That should now not be
a problem anymore, as rebol.dll (and yes, Tim, also rebol.so) are
keeping only platform independent code, so in theory all is needed is
set-up of compiler and you are done. At least much easier than with R2
model. The rest in R3 is open-sourced.
As for memory usage, View starts on 6MBs with R2, 2MBs with R3. But -
remember that Sun also discontinued JavaME, and they are suggesting to
use full Java, as even mobile devices are getting faster. Still having
memory efficient tool is an advantage though ....
Petr
