[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?
...
> 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