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Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software

From Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software
Date 2017-03-01 17:26 -0600
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On 3/1/2017 4:50 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
>> The compiler uses code in C to create a eForth Virtual machine that
>> executes 67 "eForth" primitives, but some of the code is less than
>> optimal,
>
> The minimal eforth primitives assume very little cpu capabilities,
> e.g. not even multiplication.  So make sure there are primitives for all
> that.
>

Address calculations are being done during the execution of every 
primitive that involves division.

>> for example the VM code that executes the next instruction, goes off
>> on a eForth High Level subroutine,
>
> Make sure to mark that inline.  Maybe it's being taken care of though.
>
>> pgets, or writes a byte or word calculates an address every single
>> time, and it uses division as part of the process, very
>> inefficient. It looks simple in C but the code generated is expensive
>> in time.
>
> The compiler might be optimizing that out.  It is good about stuff like
> that.
>
> Are you using the highest optimization level?  You might experiment with
> some different ones.

This is Arduino none of that is available to the user, no options on 
optimizing or pretty much anything, it's made for people that know 
little about programming so all the options are gone, load a file into 
an edit window, then you tell it to install it on the target and that is 
about it. I might need to dump the Arduino software and just use GCC 
where I can have a lot of control.

>
> I thought the underlying compiler for the 8266 Arduino setup was still
> GCC, so can't you use GCC -S to look at the assembly code?

I might have to install GCC myself and modify the source to fit, then I 
can have control.
>
> Is the speed of eForth on the 8266 a real practical issue for something,
> or are you trying to make it faster on general principle?
>
General principle as there are some things in there that are way too 
inefficient to make it a practical system. The system is way too slow, 
and one see how things are being done very inefficiently so lots of room 
for improvement.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 15:18 -0600
  Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-01 15:29 -0600
    Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 17:16 -0600
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-01 17:51 -0600
        Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 18:36 -0600
          Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 16:53 -0800
            Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 19:28 -0600
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 17:56 -0800
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 20:53 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 18:57 -0800
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 21:17 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-01 21:38 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 22:02 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 19:40 -0800
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 22:44 -0600
  Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 14:50 -0800
    Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 17:26 -0600
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-01 15:41 -0800
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-01 18:10 -0600
  Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-04 20:50 -0600
    Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 20:10 -0800
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-04 23:06 -0600
        Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 21:25 -0800
          Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-05 00:47 -0600
            Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-05 01:36 -0800
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-05 17:11 -0600
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-05 15:43 -0600
            Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 01:45 -0800
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-06 10:44 -0600
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-06 12:28 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-06 16:00 -0600
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-03-06 17:57 -0500
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 01:23 -0800
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-07 12:32 +0100
                Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-07 10:39 -0600
  Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-06 13:35 +0100
    Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-06 10:51 -0600
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-07 22:33 -0600
        Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 20:39 -0800
          Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-07 23:42 -0600
            Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 23:44 -0800
              Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-08 11:03 -0600
          Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-08 12:05 +0100
    Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-06 17:09 +0000
      Re: esp8266 eForth and it's development software albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-07 12:52 +0100

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