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Re: Forth in Javascript?

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Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> writes:
> From the repositories I looked at, they are all written in
> JavaScript. No surprise, but I'd rather see a JS kernel loading a
> bunch of Forth.  I think a bytecode interpreter implemented as a giant
> switch statement would be pretty fast.

The asm.js target in my Forth is like that.  One part of the kernel is
written in Forth, and the other part consists of primitives written in
JavaScript.  The kernel loads the rest of the system from Forth source.

Every primitive has a unique ID, which is used by a switch statement in
the inner interpreter.

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Forth in Javascript? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 20:54 -0700
  Re: Forth in Javascript? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 07:05 +0300
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    Re: Forth in Javascript? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-03 10:20 +0200
      Re: Forth in Javascript? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 09:55 -0700
        Re: Forth in Javascript? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-03 19:36 +0200
  Re: Forth in Javascript? JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-05-03 03:05 -0700
  Re: Forth in Javascript? crc <charles.childers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 10:29 -0700

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