Hugh, Factor runs on 32-bit x86, 64-bit x86, and PowerPC. At one point there was an ARM port, and this will be revived at some point in the future.
Looking up word names in the dictionary is an insignificant part of load time. Most of the time is spent in the compiler's optimization passes. Slava On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Hugh Aguilar <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that symtab is debugged, I can experiment with improvements such as the > use of inline. Why is assembly language unportable? Isn't the Pentium series > the only processor that Factor runs on? Maybe in the future if there is an > ARM version, portability might be an issue. These are pretty short functions > though, so I doubt that rewriting them in ARM assembly would be all that > much work. For something like a symbol table, which is at the very heart of > the compiler, it seems like work worth doing. Compilation speed is a big > part of making an interactive environment, which is Forth's (and Factor's) > main selling point. Lack of an interactive environment is why languages such > as C++ and Pascal are pretty much dead (and unlamented, as far as I'm > concerned). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
