Dennis- Sunday, October 16, 2005, 6:27:04 PM, you wrote:
> One of the great things about Forth was the overhead of just a few > machine language instructions to execute a high level function call. Yep - it's hard to beat an indirect stack pop for speed. > Transcript seems to require a trip around the world to jump next > door. For GUI speed stuff, it would not be a problem, but for my > array crunching stuff, I am stuck writing everything in one handler > to keep the speed up. The convenience of having an environment like > that would be very tempting to use for whatever could stand the > overhead --and that might be quit a lot of applications. Well, the Forth kernel doesn't take up much space - there are a few implementations in C available - it might be fun to throw one of the embedded forths into an external library, but I expect you could count the interested target group on one finger. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
