compileIt for revolution?

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Wed Jun 22 11:16:47 EDT 2005


I believe part of the problem is that Revolution doesn't have numerically 
index arrays.  The arrays are associative arrays whose indexes can be any 
value (including text) so element access is a lookup, rather than an 
address computation.

At 10:07 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote:
>I have a feeling that there is "compiled" and then there is "compiled".
>It is my impression (correct me if I'm wrong) that Rev compiles to pCodes 
>(similar to the old pSystem and to Visual Basic), while Delphi and C++ 
>compile to native code.  The difference in performance is between one and 
>three orders of magnitude, depending on what you're doing.
>
>It is true that Rev is fast enough to do some amazing things (the Nine 
>Ball with Spin stack is a good example of excellent real-time graphic 
>performance), but it is a real dog at compute intensive tasks (processing 
>each pixel in an image).
>
>Jon
>
>
>Pat Trendler wrote:
>
>>Do you have Revolution Dreamcard?
>>
>>You need Revolution Studio, or better, and you can then make a standalone 
>>compiled app.
>>
>>Pat
>>patrend at bigpond.com
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Engle" <engleerica at yahoo.com>
>>To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:48 AM
>>Subject: compileIt for revolution?
>>
>>
>>>Is there any chance that Heizer/Royalsoft (or anyone else for that 
>>>matter) will
>>>make a script compiler for revolution like compileIt?
>>>
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