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Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> writes:
> I would not make that trade off today.
> So there's only one Stephen Pelc but two application domains.

I wonder how much effort de-localizing the TCP/IP stack took, compared
to hypothetically updating the compiler to optimize locals more.  If the
TCP/IP stack code can compile with iForth or lxf, is there a way to
compare the code size with VFX's?  I can understand wanting to use VFX
for actual delivery, of course.