Lars Brinkhoff

Ensure x86 performance at least on par with Gforth

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See e.g. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/YVjtNQwSIH0/YHduzDG4c9EJ > Some may believe that a threaded-code engine written in assembly language would have led to better performance than that exhibited by Gforth. However, looking at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/performance.html,...

Then COREEXT, TOOLS, STRING, EXCEPTION, SEARCHORDER, DOUBLE, etc.

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Finding Forth repositories

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Hello, I created a GitHub user to put a star on Forth repositories: http://github.com/stars/ForthStar I'd be happy to take suggestions for more repositories. The criteria are: - Detected as Forth...

Naming conventions

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This comes up every now and then. Here's a summary I made: | Word | Explanation | --- | --- | 0foo | Clear foo, reset foo | foo0 |...

Charles Moore is retiring from Forth

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According to Elizabeth Rather's message [](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.lang.forth/LmthCiZ4Cjk/f-e03GHXAQAJ) to comp.lang.forth, Charles Moore is retiring from Forth.

Forth file extensions on GitHub

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Occasionally I check which Forth file extension are most popular on GitHub. It's not easy to know which files are written in Forth, but I use the heuristic "if it...

Forth and Music

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Forth projects related to music: https://github.com/b0blee/4thAcademy https://github.com/erlehmann/libglitch https://github.com/boomlinde/acidforth https://github.com/philburk/hmsl https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Sporth Are there more?

Which processors do your applications target?

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I'm curious on which processors people run their Forth applications?