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Re: Compiled Forth

Date 2015-04-04 14:43 -1000
From "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com>
Organization FORTH, Inc.
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Compiled Forth
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On 4/4/15 9:02 AM, lehs wrote:
> I'm using an old laptop with a simple Celeron processor and
> SP-Forth from the Russian Forth Interest Group. In SP-Forth
> there are words SET-OPT and DIS-OPT that optionally compile
> the Forth code to machine code. Using this optimization
> method the code normally become 20 times faster.
>
> I wonder, is this normal for a processor like mine? It's a
> rather big gap in my opinion...
>

It sounds as though their non-optimized Forth is really slow. There can 
be significant differences in the performance of an ITC implementation 
depending on how well it was written and how well the VM was designed to 
fit the host CPU.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-04 12:02 -0700
  Re: Compiled Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-04 14:43 -1000
    Re: Compiled Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-04 18:16 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 10:58 -0700
    Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 10:52 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-06 15:35 +0000
        Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 08:51 -0700
          Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-06 15:32 -0700
            Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 16:28 -0700
              Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-08 13:58 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 14:41 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-08 14:01 -1000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-09 00:06 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-10 16:48 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 10:23 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-10 18:04 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-09 10:31 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-09 17:57 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-09 11:06 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-22 09:17 -0700
        Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 09:01 -0700
  Re: Compiled Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-05 09:32 +0000
    Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 11:02 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-04-06 18:35 +1000
  Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-05 09:52 +0000
    Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 11:20 -0700
    Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 11:57 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 12:05 -0700
        Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 12:47 -0700
          Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 13:36 -0700
            Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 13:57 -0700
              Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 14:37 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 15:10 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 15:23 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 08:52 +0300
        Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 23:09 -0700
          Re: Compiled Forth Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 10:12 +0300
          Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 00:15 -0700
            Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 01:05 -0700
              Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 01:27 -0700
            Re: Compiled Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-06 12:20 +0000
          Re: Compiled Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-06 12:10 +0000
            Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 11:45 -0700
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        Re: Compiled Forth Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2015-04-06 09:01 +0100
          Re: Compiled Forth Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 11:27 +0300
      Re: Compiled Forth Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2015-04-06 08:06 +0100
      Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-06 14:15 +0000
  Re: Compiled Forth stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-04-06 11:32 +0000
  Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 08:01 -0700
    Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 12:04 -0700
      Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 12:58 -0700
        Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 13:29 -0700
          Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-06 16:44 -0700
            Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 19:59 -0700
              Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 01:31 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 01:36 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2015-04-07 12:00 +0100
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 04:25 -0700
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                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 21:40 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-09 00:18 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 23:43 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 04:07 -0700
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                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-10 12:02 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 07:21 -0700
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                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 09:43 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-10 16:43 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 11:03 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-10 18:26 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-10 11:27 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 11:36 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-10 11:56 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 12:20 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 13:00 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 13:14 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 13:29 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:08 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 23:08 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-11 01:59 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 02:20 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 02:44 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth mhx@iae.nl - 2015-04-11 11:21 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 11:43 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-04-11 19:44 +0000
                Re: Compiled Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 12:51 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 15:26 -0700
                Re: Compiled Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 04:50 -0700

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