[REBOL] Re: Is Rebol code smaller?/Compiler!
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 20-Nov-2002 21:39
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:41:46AM -0700, Gregg Irwin wrote:
> Hi Gabriele,
>
> GS> What would be useful to, instead, is offering something like:
>
> GS> f: make native! [...] [
> GS> ; a compilable REBOL dialect here
> GS> ]
>
> I agree, but I think Carl once mentioned that another tricky issue is
> that certain OSs don't allow you to create code segments dynamically,
> so I'm not sure if that's even possible in all cases. Not sure how
> JITing works either, as might be applied to REBOL.
>
AFAIK compiling and re-running a programm works everywhere.
so a script could compile a specialized binary and launch it.
with some version-checking to compile only the first time.
> -- Gregg
-Volker
