Richard, As you point out, performance is not a problem in most "practical" cases.
In terms of graphics, Im even quite surprised at the throughput of MoireX but given its simplicity, well, i dont think bezier moires are coming soon at least on my little portable ;) But what about the 100% cpu hogging so characteristic of Windowns seen when running a loop? This is not so savvy Im afraid to report even though it doesn't seem like RR hogs the computer - only the ... But for the most part, you're absolutely right to say that RR is a performer. I know nothing faster to develop with this level of complexity and expected output... But graphicsand hogging are the smoothest. But I'll add an FPSmeter to my next moire version ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard > Gaskin > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 15:37 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely > > > MisterX wrote: > > > To win over PC users, it would be nice to have the features of flash and > > java... RunRev definitely has the quality look required. But performance > > and little things keep RR a step behind. Even compared to RealBasic, RR > > still has one feature above all the forementioned: the easiest > and fastest > > way to make an application - Flash is not that easy to script! > > Indeed the productivity benefits are hard to match, and I've seen no > reasoned argument describing something more productive. > > But on performance, I think you must have missed a few posts here > over the last year: > > Everytime someone who who doesn't use Rev comes trolling in here looking > to pick a fight on performance, ultimately it is the troll who goes away > embarassed when Rev is demonstrated to outperform their fave, and often > in fewer lines. > > I'm sure a more clever troll could work hard enough to identify the > subset of cases where that's not true, but do date the discussions have > been ostensibly about real-world needs, and the argument wasn't worth > pursuing further to them at all once total development productivity is > reintroduced into the discussion. > > This is not to suggest that Rev will beat everything all the way down to > Assembler, but it's much faster than most 4GLs and some 3GLs and I don't > think anyone who actually measures it considers performance to be a > critical issue. > > In the relatively narrow subset of cases where performance of > computationally-intensive routines is beyond what Rev does gracefully, > as with the many-times-more-expensive Director or Toolbook products you > can always just drop in an external for such specialized needs. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > ___________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution