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from: STEPHEN PELC
date: 2018-06-30 08:15:00
subject: Re: Forth

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 02:07:28 -0500, Michael J. Mahon 
wrote:

>If there is a useful code size reduction in threaded code (or fully
>interpreted code), then there can be a considerable reduction in code size
>with little or no reduction in performance.

It's rare that you get to compare the same application, but we did
get to convert a client's 68xxx app from direct-threaded to NCC
(native code compiled). The difference in size for a 256 kb app
was less than 2%, with the NCC version being smaller.

Stephen


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