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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:23:06 -0500
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On 2/7/2017 3:47 PM, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 06:29:34 -0500, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/7/2017 6:01 AM, Stephen Pelc wrote:
>>
>>> To give an example of a current large Forth project that has
>>> evolved over 30 years, see the Candy system at
>>>   http://constructioncomputersoftware.com/
>>> which is currently built on VFX Forth for Windows. Candy consists
>>> of 55 Mb of source code in 1.2 million lines of code and generates
>>> an executable of 27 Mb. I always quote this one because I do a full
>>> rebuild before each VFX Forth release.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile this code?
>
> 29 seconds on an i7, 3.4GHz, 8 Gb RAM, Win 7.
>
> It used to be 72 seconds, but we discovered that the word that
> moved words from one wordlist to another was general purpose. It
> was replaced by a specific one.
>
>> Any idea of what feature of the computer limits the speed?  CPU speed, disk
>> speed, memory speed, cache size?
>
> Disk cache is the limit. The first compile after a reboot can take
> twice as long.
>
> Stephen

I wish you hadn't snipped the stats of the code being compiled.  I'm 
pasting them back in so this info is all together.

Mayonnaise

-- 

Rick C

I always wanted to end a post with the word Mayonnaise.