Re:Miranda released as free software
by mlochbaum on Saturday February 29, 2020 @06:13PM
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If you're talking about parsing speed, Dyalog is slow because it has a much more complicated grammar, and because it stores the execution stack in the workspace in order to make stack overflows impossible. If you're claiming k or Forth is faster for large array processing, I'd like to see some benchmarks. Do you have a citation for Moore on the instruction cache?
Though I disagree with your comment on the cache: it's very blatantly better for interpreters; Whitney isn't the only one who's a believer in that, Moore does too, and Moore is more competent than just about anybody. If you look at the performance of k and Moore-written Forths compared to Dyalog APL, it does seem like they have a point.