Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 13:02:22 02/23/04
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While gforth is good it is by no means the fastest Forth there is. It is merely one of the faster interpreted or threaded ones. And its speed is heavily dependent on individual processor achitectures. Ertl et al are releasing a native compiler sometime soon. But even a threaded gforth can be made to run faster by optimizing for program specific superinstructions. A largely automatic procedure where the interpreter is automatically rewritten using performance figures. And if you use assembler in the inner loop there is another gain. Mature native compilers like VXForth produce even better code. MvH Dan Andersson
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