Re:Threaded Code (1999)
by lebuffon on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:27AM
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The VFX Forth compiler is about 3 to 3.5 times faster on most benchmarks. GForth-fast does some clever "JIT" type tricks to make it faster than a naive Forth system but there is still some overhead inherent in reading the lists of addresses in threaded code.
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Re:Threaded Code (1999)
by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:53AM
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Right, the Gforth project makes use of lots of clever techniques, but they're not interested in conventional optimising native-code compilation (whether JIT or ahead-of-time) and if I understand correctly they're not interested in writing platform-specific code (i.e. hand-optimised assembly).
On another note, Gforth is actively being worked on, but it's been almost 7 years since the last stable release.