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[REBOL] Re: View for CE or Zaurus revisited.

From: krobillard:san:rr at: 15-Feb-2003 14:46

On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:53 pm, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Yes, very strange thing. Carl designed AmigaOS - modular concept, fast > enough even on 7MHz machine, yet View is sometimes laggy even on pretty > decent machine. Rebol is very good concept, but inability to compile (or > overall lack of free time of RT to add domain specific dialect virtual > machines) does not provide us with general enough language - we are > magnitude slower than C or even Java on general math and GUI stuff > (general primitives, bitmap handling). Maybe we should wait for next gen > devices?
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> So, in the meantime, we can forget multimedia and other cute things > Rebol could shine in, and code few boring enterprise apps, can't we? :-) > There is always something usefull to do with Rebol ...
Hi Petr, Since I can't embed REBOL into C programs and use it directly, I've found that using it as a compiler for custom virtual machines works pretty well. This may be better than using REBOL directly as there is no run-time overhead or speed penalty of a general purpose language. The only downside is that generating binary values from REBOL is a little messy (such as the code required to convert decimal values to IEEE floats). The article you found on linking C and Python to build GUIs on MacOSX is a good example of what would be possible if programmers were allowed to 'get down and dirty' with REBOL. -Karl