Thanks! Unfortunately assembler is not my strongest point. Though theoretically I can do it, in practice that will take forever. However, I believe, turning bigforth into 64 bit can be done in two stages:
1. Everything as is but ASM is 64 bit and libraries are too. 2. Improve compiler to take advantage of the benefits the architecture gives. In that scheme bigforth becomes usable on 64 bit machines right after the first step. For example, in my case these machines have many CPUs in them which, together with callbacks.fs (and threading) can compensate for non-optimality of the compiler before it is improved. Thanks! -- Sergey On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:02 +0200, Bernd Paysan wrote: > > All CODE words need to be changed. The assembler needs to be expanded > to 64 > bit mode (this has already been done in the Gforth assembler, which > is > derived from the bigForth assembler). The compiler logic itself should > work > (since it's not so much different), but with 8 more registers, I'd > like to > change the compiler logic, as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
