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Re: What is Forth anyway?

From Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: What is Forth anyway?
Date 2017-06-07 14:54 -0500
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On 6/7/2017 2:28 PM, Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> lehs wrote:
> 
>> How much faster would Forth become with maybe hundreds of highly
>> optimized stack juggling words,
> 
> Probably not at all. The current words are probably optimized already,
> and I don't see why more words would make things faster. They could
> make certain things easier, sure, but faster? I doubt it.
> 

I once wrote an optimizing Forth compiler and it used a variety of stack 
manipulation words to help in optimizing so many primitives were broken 
in extra pieces. But they were not available to write applications with, 
they were used internally to help optimize the code, the standard stack 
manipulation words were all one needed.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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What is Forth anyway? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2017-06-03 20:31 -0700
  Re: What is Forth anyway? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-03 23:05 -0700
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      Re: What is Forth anyway? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-06-04 16:39 -0700
        Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-05 12:44 +0000
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                Re: What is Forth anyway? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-06-08 02:06 -0500
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                Re: What is Forth anyway? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 14:57 +0300
                Re: What is Forth anyway? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-06 13:34 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 17:07 +0300
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 16:51 +0200
                Re: What is Forth anyway? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-06 16:32 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 01:37 +0200
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-07 19:29 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-07 14:56 -0500
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-06-06 04:48 -0500
                Re: What is Forth anyway? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-06 10:10 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-07 19:28 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-07 14:54 -0500
                Re: What is Forth anyway? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 19:42 -0700
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-09 17:12 +0000
      Re: What is Forth anyway? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-06-04 17:40 -0700
        Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-05 12:51 +0000
          Re: What is Forth anyway? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-06-05 17:19 -0700
            Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-07 19:32 +0000
              Re: What is Forth anyway? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 16:50 -0700
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-09 17:15 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 13:04 -0700
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-09 21:27 +0000
          Re: What is Forth anyway? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-06 10:19 +0000
            Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-07 19:38 +0000
              Re: What is Forth anyway? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-08 11:52 +0000
                Re: What is Forth anyway? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-06-09 17:23 +0000
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