[REBOL] Re: (for Carl :-) Re: Re: SHEEP vs Rebol
From: karlr20::home::com at: 13-Oct-2001 13:52
On Saturday 13 October 2001 00:47, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> - give us Rebol/View running under Elate, and you are suddenly targetting
> all Tao based electronic devices.
> - give View some suggested fixes (alpha, fixed timers, exposed effect
> pipeline or some general engines)
> - or even - make some money (I hope IOS will do for RT :-), employ some
> additional programmers, and you personally give us Rebol/Scala (to kill
> Flash :-)
> - but - what to do with speed? Currently, we are pretty much dependant upon
> what (general engines) and when RT adds to its kernels. I can't imagine
> however building something as 3D, general 2D drawing (not just effects),
> dependant on primitive operations, fast enough. So, if we can't compile, we
> can't compete speed wise. Imagine Sheep tree example, interpreted in
> Rebol,it would be probably XX times slower ...
And don't forget that Elate has it's own font engine, something REBOL/View is
sorely lacking.
-Karl
