Carl Read wrote: >On 30-Sep-02, Petr Krenzelok wrote: > > >>Carl Read wrote: >> >> >And a full-featured REBOL/View exe may get quite large over the years >and require a few megs of disk-space. But Mike's idea would be an >option for those who don't have space worries but still need to run a >lite-version of REBOL now and then. And you can run Base (or Face or >Beam or whatever) on your cell-phone - since it's here now anyway. (: > > > In few years, native to mezzanine level ratio will be 90:10 imo .... once we get all those .mp3, .avi, etc support - there will be just few mezzanine level functions to support those, while the rest will be present in native mode in .exe itself. So, we will talk about it once again as you will be pushed to download 2meg new rebol.exe, just because of one of components, which just takes some 100kb or so ....
I am not pushing RT to do it right now. Rebol/base is good indication they do care about efficiency. We mostly can't run Rebol on most of current mobile devices, but once the time will come, better granularity is always a win, if done in a clever way ... -pekr- -pekr- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
