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echo: rberrypi
to: PABST@BLUE.RIBBON
from: STEPHEN PELC
date: 2018-06-28 16:58:00
subject: Re: Forth

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:17:31 GMT, Pabst Blue Ribbon
 wrote:

>I can be even more specific. On x86, 'kernel' is just 4 (four) processor
>instructions. The rest can be treated as 'library'.
>
>> But then it has a lot of 'library' to make.

Threaded code is all but obsolete in modern Forths. Most modern
Forths generate optimised native code.

Stephen

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