Jeffrey Massung

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Forth is great, but Chuck's greatest contribution was teaching that understanding and simplifying the problem was far more effective than adding complexity to a solution. Regardless of his "participation level"...

Obviously anything someone would like to do to further Forth or get new people understanding it is great; I commend - and would endeavor to assist with - any project...

@scotws Wow, thanks for that link! I'm so happy that is the case. While Kindle is fine, if there was a physical copy I would have clicked "buy" already. ;-)

> When optimizing native-code compilers are used with Forth, the result is that Forth code runs far faster than when threaded code is used. This has more to do with...

> In addition to saving the NEXT overhead for very common phrases, many of the optimized phrases have way less memory traffic. :+1: Yep! Your particular strategy seems quite nice....

I don't know web assembly, but looking over the code, my initial guess is that - when compiled to JavaScript - the variable "initialScript" is not properly null terminated. You...

> Why reinvent the wheel? I'm sorry, just had to comment that I had myself a little chuckle when I read this... given that likely everyone reading this has written...

@JohnEarnest thanks for the data! The @trapexit documentation you linked was a good chunk of my reference material (and debugging vs. other emulators). That page specifically calls out 0x00BN as...

Ah, I see. Sorry, I misread the original issue.

Thanks for noticing this. I've pushed a fixed version to master. Would you mind pulling latest and making sure it's fixed for you before I tag a 1.3 release with...