Hi Bernard, you are certianly right about RB. Indeed I am following their developmentduring the years. I am pretty sure that the same code will be probably faster in RB than in VB6 but I have yet to decide to buy their compiler. As you said, what is attractive in RevMedia is its free character and the fact that one can write a trully portable app running within any browser. It is also rather easy to adopt as a language for teaching programming concepts to people in the scientific field without the effort needed with Java or C++. Python is certainly a beautiful language extremely reach in features and ad hoc libraries and can be adopted as a general purpose language also in a scientific context (Numpy will solve almost all numerical aspects). On the other hand I still have to find an easy way to deploy to a final user a complex Python application which would be straightforward to install on his/her computer. Cheers Piero
2009/8/28 Bernard Devlin <[email protected]> > Viktoras, > > Maybe the wording in the IDE (and maybe the docs) is misleading. > After all, the button in the script editor says 'compile', not just > 'save' or 'check syntax'. It might very well be that it is compiled > into some form of p-code that doesn't mean that it needs to be > re-compiled each time the script inside a control is called. (I > believe that Python and other scripting languages also compile down to > some form that doesn't require recompilation - I know that REXX used > to do this). > > If it is compiled then one might well have an expectation that it > would perform at speeds near to those of VB. After all, Java is > compiled to byte code and it performs pretty well these days. > (Although it hardly seems reasonable to expect a company the size of > RunRev to be able to optimize cross-platform execution the way that a > company the size of Sun [with additional help/stimulus from companies > like IBM/Oracle]). > > It might also be interesting/useful for Piero to implement his code in > RealBasic. Since it is so close to VB it should be fairly trivial. > After all, RB is cross platform and from a small company too. > Although if Piero is interested in delivering content through a > browser, then RB may not be of much interest to him even if it is > faster. > > Bernard > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:30 PM, viktoras d.<[email protected]> wrote: > > However, please > > correct me if I am wrong, VB6 is compiled while Revolution is > interpreted, > > therefore much slower. Did you try implementing same algorithm in other > > interpreted languages (javascript, php, perl, etc?) it would be > interesting > > to do some benchmarking :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Prof. Piero Ugliengo University of Torino Dip. Chimica IFM, Via P. Giuria, 7 I-10125 Torino ITALY Phone: +39-011-670.4596 FAX: +39-011-236.4596 E-mail: [email protected] Home page: http://web086.unito.it/cgi-bin/chimifm/persone.pl/Show?_id=ugliengo&sort=DEFAULT&search=&hits=70 MOLDRAW: http://www.moldraw.unito.it _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
