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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by e12e on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:42AM (#22802622)
Which compiler, and for what purpose - did you end up buying? What does it give you beyond the many open implementations?

On a side note - anyone know if greenarrays is still delivering hw? Those multicore forth chips really seemed nice (and crazy).

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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by TurboHaskal on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:03AM (#22802783)
Mostly performance. GForth is slow compared to the optimising compilers (I know about gforth-fast already). Also I don't care that much about open source. I'm old enough not to be opposed to the idea of buying compilers.

I ended up with iForth which is well priced, targets 64bit and has a simple license. Here's a feature list http://users.bart.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html

SwiftForth and VFX are awesome as well but 32bit only and can't justify paying that much at this point.

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Re:Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly by e12e on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:55AM (#22804350)
Hm, I hadn't really thought about optimizing compilers for forth... I wonder if the strategies are different than for eg c or Pascal compilers.

I guess the situation is simalar for other closed compilers (Intel c, high perf Java compiler/VMs etc).

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