[REBOL] Re: /View as a Product
From: chris:starforge at: 16-Feb-2001 21:26
#16-Feb-01# Message from *Paul Tretter*:
Hi Paul,
> I agree with Holger. I want to be successful financially as a REBOL
> programmer some day when I master whats at hand now. As for some of the
> comments regarding cgi why not have a command-line option for cgi that
> basically unsets everything /view-like but still allows for cgi or what is
> called /Core functionallity today.
It still requires the all code to be loaded into memory, unless REBOL
is fragmented into various libraries (which raises serious cross-platform
issues). Even assuming load overhead is trivial - which it most certainly
isn't - the code then needs to be decompressed. Again, if the whole of the
package is in a single binary this either requires complex internal
compartmentalisation of the compressed code to optimise the decompression
or the whole thing, including the view code which is not required, has to
be decompressed.
Not insurmountable problems, but I can't see why it is necessary. I don't
know how the /view and /core source trees are related but I'd guess that
making seperate /view and /core distributions is not a particularly
troublesome task (I can think of several ways it could be done just with
preprocessor directives)..
Chris
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