* 2010-03-29 21:01 (+0100), Antony Scriven wrote:
> On 28 March 2010 09:25, Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> DISCLAIMER: My tests may suck so I suggest everyone do better ones.
>> :-)
>
> :-). Well I think I should mention that GForth is VM based, or it was
> last I looked.
More accurately GForth uses GCC to compile direct or indirect threaded
code.
> A fast commercial Forth is probably pretty close to the optimised
> SBCL.
Yes, that's very likely. Here's an old comparison between Forth systems:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/performance.html
GForth seems to be the fastest of those which do not produce pure native
code.
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