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Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup

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On 3/31/2017 5:49 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
> On 3/31/2017 3:29 PM, rickman wrote:
>> On 3/26/2017 2:56 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>>>
>>> I will tomorrow start looking at the documentation on how to install the
>>> software and give it a go, so far noForth is pretty good compared to
>>> several other Forth I tried, but meCrisp, and VFX have not been tried
>>> and compared.
>>
>> Have you started your eval of Mecrisp yet?
>>
>>
>>> The comparison weights in many factors such as supported processors,
>>> efficiency on how fast it runs and how much resources it takes, how
>>> useful is it's Forth implementation, source code availability.
>>>
>>> No doubt MPE VFX Forth will do well as it can be embedded or it can be
>>> tethered to save space, and in tethered mode there is a very nice
>>> optimizer built in. The main disadvantage it has an it is an annoying
>>> one is that it setup for Flash processors only and there is no sample of
>>> it supporting the FRAM parts which are the main parts I'm interested in,
>>> so there would be some major work to modify it to work with FRAM parts.
>>> It will do well in several aspects, efficiency as it's an optimizing
>>> compiler and available in tethered form so only needed works are used,
>>> and it has extensive functions, both words available and use of
>>> resources such as i2c, spi, SD cards, etc.
>>>
>>> The whole purpose of the exercise is to make some projects available to
>>> others use so I want to pick the right software so others can easily
>>> follow. For that reason I will test the free version of MPE instead of
>>> the Professional Version.
>>
>> Do you plan to write a review of each system?  It would be a *very*
>> useful web page to have reviews of the various embedded Forth systems so
>> others can save a bunch of time when going through the same process.  If
>> you simply pick your choice and provide info on that, a lot will be lost
>> since others won't have your same preferences and requirements.
>>
> Sorry some health issues came up and I have no had time to do it, I am
> going out of town this weekend so it will have to wait until next week.
>
> I had not planned a review but I will think about and will have to do
> additional testing then.

Sorry to hear about the health issues.

I'm not at all trying to rush you.  I was just curious how it was going 
for you and would be happy to offer any help I can.

I don't think you need to do any extra work.  I'm just asking that since 
you are collecting so much data that you share it.  It doesn't have to 
be a perfectly complete collection.  Like Terry Porter's Mecrisp 
documentation is becoming a shared project, others can help you fill in 
the gaps once the information makes it to a web page of some sort.

Heck, I tried that once back when ARM MCUs were still rather new.  I 
created a spread sheet of every one I could find with some details of 
features and put it up as a web page and a download.  Over the following 
year or two keeping it updated became an enormous task as NXP and others 
started pumping out new devices with lots of new features.  I ended up 
having to scrap the effort as it became much too large for a simple 
spread sheet.

-- 

Rick C

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Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 14:42 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 15:37 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 22:37 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-03-27 15:27 +0200
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 10:56 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 16:24 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 15:33 -0500
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 17:23 -0400
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 17:32 -0500
          Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 03:09 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 02:50 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 07:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-26 11:04 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 14:45 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:16 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:53 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 02:16 -0700
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:51 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:32 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 14:15 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:44 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-25 14:42 -0700
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup john <anon@example.com> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0100
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:56 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 16:29 -0400
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-31 16:49 -0500
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 18:16 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 13:19 -0400

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