I personally wonder what it would take to create a true compiler for Rev stacks? Obviously this would introduce some limitations on certain operations, but for stacks which don't use those operations, it could substantially increase performance...
I agree it would be good to be able to selectively compile Transcript (in my own work very little would benefit from it significantly, but when it would I'd be willing to introduce a compile-runtime cycle into my workflow). In the meantime you have true compilation available with any other language of your choice through externals.
At the heart of Transcript compilation is data typing, and fortunately the design work of mixing typing with xTalk has already been done: ToolBook's OpenScript allows data typing to makes direct calls to the Win OS API.
There was a thread on this last year on the Improve-Rev list -- maybe it's a good time to resurrect that there to arrive at a recommended spec for inclusion in Bugzilla.
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