RunRev vs RealBasic

[MisterX]

Basically, you want compileIT for RunRev for all platforms...

Not obvious to do probably ;))

Join the club! 

Im sure someone is working hard on it ;)

What would be cool, would be a runrev to flash compiler ;))
eh, it's a joke, i'd rather have a FireFox plugin to run RevStacks
instead...

cheers
Xavier 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Gordon Webster
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 16:53
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: RunRev vs RealBasic
> 
> I really like what Frank is contemplating ... 
> 
> It would be ganz wunderbar if rev users had the option to 
> create stacks that were destined to be natively compiled as 
> externals. I guess that rev would have to insist on some sort 
> of type declarations in such a case to get optimal 
> performance, but this could be done only in the stacks that 
> are to be compiled, allowing rev users to keep a flexible, 
> typeless environment except for the parts of the app that 
> needed compiled performance. Naturally, the runtime would 
> produce all the necessary boilerplate code for the interface 
> between the rev runtime+bytecode app and the new external :-)
> 
> BTW: I purchased rev because I was tired of working on my 
> hands and knees pushing heavy boulders with my nose, writing 
> in C (or doing the same with a hippo on my back, writing in 
> C++). Isn't there some way that rev could free us from the 
> hell of having to write externals in C? I also use 
> PowerBasic, which allows you to declare the functions 
> exported by a DLL in your code and then simply use them as if 
> they were an "Include".
> 
> How about it rr - something like:
> 
> revDeclareExternal someFunction in "C:\something.dll"
> 
> Wouldn't that be sweet :-)
> 
> Best
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net> wrote:
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> > On Dec 31, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 2:40 pm, Ken Ray wrote:
> > >> That's one of the beauties of Rev... data can be
> > stored *inside* the
> > >> stack
> > >> files, either as data in fields that have been
> > saved, or as custom
> > >> properties that are stored with the stack itself.
> > >
> > > A great point. I recently was able to create a
> > compressed, encrypted
> > > binary data storage file using a stack and a
> > single line of code. This
> > > data file stores text data along with imades in 3
> > different formats.
> > >
> > > This data file is actually a stack with no
> > business logic and is
> > > opened by my app invisibly and data selectively
> > moved to the gui,
> > > edited there and then moved back to the inv stack
> > to save. Talk about
> > > simple. Doing the same in VB would be very
> > complicated. I imagine RB
> > > too.
> > >
> > > Btw, regarding speed issues, I think there have
> > been a number of speed
> > > coding challenges between RB and RR with no
> > conclusive winner. Perhaps
> > > Frank can be more specific with regard to areas he
> > feels RR runs slow?
> > 
> > Again, CPU-Intensive routines, such as processing each byte 
> of a long 
> > string individually.  Most of the more "stock"
> > operations run quite
> > well in Rev, but when doing intensive, custom CPU-intensive 
> routines, 
> > it generally pays to write an external, particularly when targeting 
> > older hardware.
> > 
> > > Also, last time I looked, RR compiles scripts 'on
> > the fly' like Java. 
> > > Didn't know RB was a compiler. Must be tough on
> > edit/compile/run/debug
> > > cycles. Perhaps it's an interpreter like RR and
> > compiles during
> > > runtime? I don't know.
> > 
> > Rev "compiles" scripts into a bytecode format which is later 
> > interpreted by the runtime environment.  Faster than a "pure"
> > interpreter, but still slower than compiled code.
> > 
> > Java code gets run through a compiler which translates it 
> into a Java 
> > bytecode.  That bytecode is then interpreted at runtime, much as is 
> > Rev code.  However, some Java runtime environments
> > (JREs) will actually
> > "recompile" the bytecode into native code for the platform. 
>  This is 
> > slower than compiling code directly for the hardware, but adds the 
> > write-one-run-anywhere flexibility of Java (and to some degree of 
> > Rev), and the result of this (sometimes referred to as 
> "Just-In-Time"
> > compilation) is much closer in speed to native compiled code.
> > 
> > Real Basic is a true compiler, which translates code into 
> instructions 
> > for the actual hardware on which it is run.  This is the fastest 
> > solution, since the computer hardware does virtually
> > *all* of the work
> > of figuring out how to execute each instruction, and there is no 
> > runtime translation step.  However, this also locks the compiled 
> > version to the platform for which it was compiled (similarly to a 
> > standalone produced by Rev), and it causes a 
> Compile-Run-Debug cycle 
> > to be introduced.  Visual Basic (M$ product) is also a true 
> compiler.
> > 
> > I personally wonder what it would take to create a true 
> compiler for 
> > Rev stacks?  Obviously this would introduce some limitations on 
> > certain operations, but for stacks which don't use those 
> operations, 
> > it could substantially increase performance...
> > 
> > > Best,
> > > Chipp
> > > Chipp Walters, Altuit.com
> > > Sent from my Sidekick
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> -----------------------------------------------------------
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> > 
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