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Subject: Re: FORTH on the Advanced Placement Computer Science !
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:26:02 +0100
Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> wrote:

> beeflo wrote:
> > What other compilers are close to being suitable for gforth's
> > needs?  I assume you want a compiler with a free licence, and that
> > supports a wide variety of hardware.
> 
> Apart from that, what we really need for Forth is an incremental
> compiler. The static C compiler can be used to compile an engine, but
> what we really need is to compile Forth on the fly.
> 
> The good thing is: To achieve better performance than with the
> current GCC approach, we can do with a much less sophisticated
> compiler.
> 

Problem is that there is no such.