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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> But there isn't much point benchmarking Forth with something that only
> gets written in Forth as a benchmark, I would have thought.  To each
> their own.  :-)

I compared it to some other languages.  Gforth was slower than C++ or
Luajit but faster than Python or regular Lua.  I have the timings around
here somewhere and can probably find and post them if anyone cares.