please just ignore me if I am getting on your nerves - I have found a couple of hourse time to spend on Revolution so I am busy understanding the concepts behind it :-)
I read that many of you encode the plain text of their scripts to hide them from customer's eyes. Why is the plain text included at all? Even ancient interpreter languages (like old VC20 basic) don't write the PLAIN TEXT into a file, they use TOKEN. A "print" would be a one-byte token. This also speeds up reading the file in (less data to read).
The question I would like to ask is, since I HOPE Revolution isn't a "runtime-interpreter" but a modern "two-step" compiler that creates a bytecode from the "human readable code", which again is executed internally: Why isn't the bytecode saved as the executable code for standalone-applications? It's very likely that this bytecode is platform independant (it would be funny if it wasn't since you would have to compile a new runtime-executor for every platform then)...
Anyway: Saving the "original source code" inside a runtime application does not make much sense: It needs a lot of space (all function names, variables etc don't have to be stored with their "human readable" fully qualified names, their code references would do nicely), the application has to compile the code every time it is run (what for? If it has to compile it anyway, the pre-executable code would do nicely for the application and it would be less "spyable") instead of directly using the bytecode - and it makes the application "hackable".
I tried changing the "Transcript" code inside a "standalone application" to see if this is a security issue (meaning: I use a normal text editor that is binary safe - I am NOT using Revolution). IT IS. Changing the clear text code inside the application leads to the CHANGED CODE being executed - so it would be easy for an evil minded to put some nasty stuff into the application, the code to be executed is not checksum-protected. This would at least be a BIT more difficult if only the bytecode was stored in the standalone app, not the original source code.
Again: Please excuse my potentially "offending" questions. I am trying to understand the technical implications of using Revolution and to find out why some issues seem ... somewhat "complicated", where they do not have to be complicated :-)
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