[REBOL] Compiler for Rebol ? Re:(13)

[news . ted]

On 9/28/2000 at 12:22 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> By an interpreter I take it you mean parsing REBOL code and mapping
REBOL commands to JAVA commands and executing them?

A working example of this product category might be the jPhython
project < http://jpython.org/ >. 

Like REBOL, Python is an interpreted scripting language. jPython does
what you might expect, interpret Python code and spit out bytecodes to
the JVM, much like cPython would interpret Python and spit machine code
to the processor. 

There's not a snowball's chance of this happening, but if it did, it
would mean you could encapsulate REBOL scripts within Java programs. 

Of course, there may be performance trade-offs, since many JVM's are
pokey. Using a high-performance Java configuration, people have matched
benchmarks between jPython and cPython (the conventional C
implementation). Though, in practice, jPhython is said to be 2.5x
slower than the mature cPython compiler.

-Ted.