Wilhelm Sanke wrote: > I have done some more benchmarking, which I will report about, > concerning the relative speeds of the MC and Rev IDEs both for using the > IDEs during the development and for building standalones. I think I have > found sort of a "critical mass" of controls where the Rev IDE absolutely > bogs down (and the MC IDE does not). A sober analysis of the causes for > these differences - about which I have some private and possibly > educated guesses - could maybe be instrumental and helpful for the > improvement of both IDEs.
Another great thing about plug-ins: Geoff Canyon's Navigator can be used in any IDE, as can my Stack Browser and Property Sheet, so there are lean options available for those tasks. Taking it a step further, one could write a plug-in that pulls out Rev's front- and backscripts and inserts leaner versions that do only the bare essentials. You'd lose the Geometry Manager, Profile Manager, etc., but folks so inclined probably aren't using those anyway. I had to write one that removes even MC's lean frontscript in order to get certain messages with the pointer tool active (mouseDoubleUp and a couple others are not passed). Which brings us back to "spartan" -- the definition you found reflects my own personal feelings: > I have looked up "spartan" in the Britannica World Language Dictionary > (part of the Encyclopedia Britannica). Here is the entry: > >> "Spartan": >> Pertaining to Sparta or the Spartians; heroically brave and enduring. >> A native or citizen of Sparta; hence, one of exceptional valor and >> fortitude. While noted for their valor, Sparta is also a good argument against the macroeconomics of militaristic societies. Sparta was an expansive military culture, and I'm told that in outlying areas it required roughly one soldier/policeman for every twelve citizens to maintain stability. Under the burden of such overhead, Spartan society never enjoyed the luxuries Athenians once took for granted. Most of the contributions to modern culture attributed to the ancient Greeks (theatre, literature, philosophy) were specifically from Athens; Sparta gave us only a cautionary tale of a society burdened by a large military-industrial complex (or as Bucky Fuller might describe it, the classic difference between investing in what he called "livingry" as opposed to weaponry). The Peloponnesian Wars were expensive to both societies and ultimately benefitted neither: Athens had the Acropolis and the Lyceum; Sparta had an armory. :) Hence this definition from Dictionary.com, which is probably what my client was referring to: # Simple, frugal, or austere: a Spartan diet; a spartan lifestyle. # Marked by brevity of speech; laconic. # Courageous in the face of pain, danger, or adversity. For my client, using MC meant using the Message Box a lot (which it used to for me also until I made my Property Sheet tool). All that typing amounted to "pain, danger, and adversity" for him. So as the Athenian Artistotle would remind us, ultimately every metaphor fails to fully describe that which it is supposed to illuminate. Encountering a bug or limitation in any IDE requires the courage to face pain, danger, and adversity. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard