How do you reduce Revolution's compiled program sizes?

Jim Lambert jiml at netrin.com
Wed Jul 9 11:05:00 EDT 2003


<The avg prog size for rebol is only about 5k (as opposed to 1800K for
Revolution.) How did they manage to make Rebol so compact?>

As Bernard noted Revolution executables include the runtime engine. With
your REBOL example that 5k is just for the program code; Rev code is just as
light. The last time I looked (a few years ago) the REBOL engine added about
300k, but it didn't include much, if any, GUI stuff in those days.  By the
time you add that and other niceities, REBOL and Rev executables probably
weigh the same.

BTW, REBOL is really cool. With it Sassenrath took a very unique and
exciting approach to programming.

Jim Lambert
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