On 29/06/2018 15:16, Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:
> Stephen Pelc  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> They doing it in an attempt to catch up with languages such as C and C++ in
> terms of speed. Java, for example, have no problems with byte code (which,
> in essence, just another name for threaded code.) If  I understand
> correctly, it still should be possible to use code optimizations with
> threaded code or even generate mixed threaded and native code
> automatically.

Browsing through this ...

http://www.forth200x.org/documents/forth-2012.pdf

... and this ...

https://www.mpeforth.com/arena/SpecialWords3.pdf

it would seem that such a mix is standard, edspite claims made to
the contrary about completely compiled FORTH!  :-)

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