Plea to sell Dan's book widely

[MisterX]

Richard,

As you point out, performance is not a problem in most
"practical" cases.

In terms of graphics, Im even quite surprised at the throughput
of MoireX but given its simplicity, well, i dont think bezier
moires are coming soon at least on my little portable ;)

But what about the 100% cpu hogging so characteristic of Windowns
seen when running a loop? This is not so savvy Im afraid to report
even though it doesn't seem like RR hogs the computer - only the
...

But for the most part, you're absolutely right to say that RR is
a performer. I know nothing faster to develop with this level
of complexity and expected output... But graphicsand hogging are
the smoothest. But I'll add an FPSmeter to my next moire version ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Richard
> Gaskin
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 15:37
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely
>
>
> MisterX wrote:
>
> > To win over PC users, it would be nice to have the features of flash and
> > java... RunRev definitely has the quality look required. But performance
> > and little things keep RR a step behind. Even compared to RealBasic, RR
> > still has one feature above all the forementioned: the easiest
> and fastest
> > way to make an application - Flash is not that easy to script!
>
> Indeed the productivity benefits are hard to match, and I've seen no
> reasoned argument describing something more productive.
>
> But on performance, I think you must have missed a few posts here
> over the last year:
>
> Everytime someone who who doesn't use Rev comes trolling in here looking
> to pick a fight on performance, ultimately it is the troll who goes away
> embarassed when Rev is demonstrated to outperform their fave, and often
> in fewer lines.
>
> I'm sure a more clever troll could work hard enough to identify the
> subset of cases where that's not true, but do date the discussions have
> been ostensibly about real-world needs, and the argument wasn't worth
> pursuing further to them at all once total development productivity is
> reintroduced into the discussion.
>
> This is not to suggest that Rev will beat everything all the way down to
> Assembler, but it's much faster than most 4GLs and some 3GLs and I don't
> think anyone who actually measures it considers performance to be a
> critical issue.
>
> In the relatively narrow subset of cases where performance of
> computationally-intensive routines is beyond what Rev does gracefully,
> as with the many-times-more-expensive Director or Toolbook products you
> can always just drop in an external for such specialized needs.
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
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