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Re:Writing a Forth in Haskell by Karrot_Kream on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:31PM (#14517345)
Not really, modern Lisps have done a fine job optimizing performance. FORTH suffers from treating the hardware too granularly, and thus not being able to take advantage of any of the advances in hardware in the last 2 decades.
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Re:Writing a Forth in Haskell by yorwba on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:37PM (#14519015)
There is no a priori reason FORTH can't take advantage of modern hardware, since in the extreme case the compiler can be completely replaced by redefining the meaning of ':' and ';'.
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