Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 17:20:46 02/24/04
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On February 23, 2004 at 15:45:04, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 23, 2004 at 13:52:47, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>Forth... > >>It is fast, efficient... > >I have heard this about Forth. Is it really comparable to the speeds of C? I >couldn't find many benchmarks, but I did find one (from 2001). It showed Forth >(gforth) to be the same distance (~50 points) from Java (Sun's java) as Java is >from C (gcc). Python and Perl are the same distance behind Forth, and Python is >certainly not known for being fast. Ancient history for gforth, and gforth itself is more of a Forth interpreter than a Forth compiler. There are many free and professional Forth compilers out there. Free: iForth, bigForth, kForth. Commercial: VfxForth, SwiftForth. The state of the art compilers are comparable (say -20%) to modern C compilers. One must note that the focus is more on embedded processors than workstation processors, so they use fewer tricks to take advantage of pipelines and cache logic. Ian
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