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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> I did a quick scan of the instruction set myself and it did appear
> useless, must be the GCC port it's brand new and the code generated
> looks poor.

You mean the 8266 instruction set is bad?  Maybe you're right, I didn't
look closely, it just seemed like a distantly MIPS-related 32 bit
vanilla cpu.

> Another angle at it is to use a different CPU for now that has a
> decent Arduino port and use it to tweak the software

You mean Eforth?  There's tons of other Forths available for the ARM
etc.; is Eforth of particular interest?