[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Excellent Larry - thanks for the explanations (although
> the GetSystemTime() vs. time() one still baffles me - I'll
> dig into the assembly code when I get some time).
>
maybe it is direct OS call versus C library?
I'm not sure, It's just looks like it
> It's good to know that Rebol is probably a (nearly) pure
> interpreter especially when dealing with loop calculations.
>
I think it's not inerpreter, at least it not interpret
scripts character by character but it interpret
its own datatypes : words!, integers!, email! etc
just like parser works (imho)
pity there's no information about rebol technology
>
> The fact that 'repeat and 'loop should be used
> when at all possible will hopefully be documented
> at some point because I can see unsuspecting C programmers
> thinking like I did. (In fact, a few pages on how
> to optimize common operations would eventually
> be appropriate).
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Rodney
>
Karol
