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Forth implemented in Rust for realtime application

rtForth

Forth implemented in Rust, designed for real-time applications.

Documentation in traditional Chinese at rtForth 入門.

Design decisions:

  • Safe first, performance later
  • Token Threaded + Subroutine-threaded (only for x86)

Usage

cargo install --path ./rtf
rtf --help         # Display help information.
rtf <file>         # Load forth commands in <file>.
rtf lib.fs <file>  # Load lib.fs before <file>.

$ rtf              # Execute debug version of rtForth.
rtForth v0.6.0, Copyright (C) 2018 Mapacode Inc.
Type 'bye' or press Ctrl-D to exit.
rf> : star 42 emit ;
 ok
rf> star
* ok
rf> star star star
*** ok
rf> bye

Benchmark 2018/08/24

  • ACER ASPIRE
  • 64-bit Ubuntu GNOME 16.04
  • rustc 1.25.0-nightly (a0dcecff9 2018-01-24)
  • old: rev 413b0c4 (2017/06/22)
  • rtforth rev 413b0c4 (2017/06/22) token-threaded (token-x86-old)
  • rtForth rev 413b0c4 (2017/06/22) subroutine-threaded (stc-x86-old)
  • rtforth rev ead4a0 token-threaded rev (ttc-x86)
  • rtForth rev ead4a0 subroutine-threaded stc-x86)
  • SwiftForth 3.7.2
  • gforth 0.7.2
  • gforth-fast 0.7.2

SwiftForth vs gforth vs rtForth:

benchmark SwiftForth gforth-fast gforth stc-x86
bubble-sort 1 x x x
fib 1 (0.191s) 6.5 (1.252s) 10.1 (1.929s) 13.6 (2.134s)
matrix-mult 1 x x x
mm-rtcg 1 x x x
sieve 1 (0.402s) 1.55 (0.625s) 3.4 (1.367s) 8.77 (3.525s)
ssieve-a 1 x x x
repeat 1 (0.218s) 9.56 (2.084s) 17.2 (3.755s) 30.9 (6.738s)

rtForth subroutine-threading vs token-threading:

threading stc-x86 token-x86 stc-x86-old token-x86-old
fib 1 (2.596s) 4.38 (11.372s) 0.86 (2.242s) 6.30 (16.357s)
sieve 1 (3.525s) 3.22 (11.361s) x x
repeat 1 (6.738s) 5.08 (34.273s) 0.96 (6.489s) 6.28 (42.359s)

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