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Re: Boring for most of you, but I'm having fun ... :)

From Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Boring for most of you, but I'm having fun ... :)
Date 2016-01-01 18:16 +0100
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Anton Ertl wrote:

>>Also, embedded systems like Mecrisp do similar things, mostly to make
>>VARIABLE possible if you compile to flash (CREATE in that case is only
>>useful for constant data).
> 
> Well, that system obviously has restrictions beyond even those that
> the standard imposes, so it's not a good argument for keeping that
> particular restriction.  If we lifted that restriction from the
> standard, Mecrisp would not become any less standard than it is now.

It has, because the standard does not care about systems in flash.  This 
concerns CREATE DOES> which is replaced by <BUILDS DOES> and the variable 
space, which is separated from the dictionary (plus that all variables in 
Mecrisp have Forth-79 initializers, because bulk initialization saves space 
in the flash).  Otherwise, Mecrisp is pretty standard.

Other flash-based systems have similar problems, though only Mecrisp has 
been ported to systems with a wide variety of different restrictions imposed 
by different flash implementations (thanks to ARM Cortex Mx implementation 
from many different manufacturers), so other systems could deal better (e.g. 
Gforth EC R8C can use CREATE and modify it with DOES> exactly one time, but 
the variable space is separated from the dictionary there, too).

We simply should accept that an embedded system has write-once and write-
often memory.  That's a constraint the implementer can't ignore, and then he 
will instead ignore the standard in this particular case.  The cache 
coherence issues in modern CPUs suggest that you probably want to have 
something similar there - you can mix code and constant data fine, but you 
can't mix code and changing data, as your microbenchmark shows.  So this 
separation is not only good for microcontrollers, but also for high-end 
CPUs.

Instead of having all variables initialized with a constant (Mecrisp), I 
would rather go at having a separate initialized version of VARIABLE, since 
this is not always needed, and then, the variable initializing region can be 
even smaller.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
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