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From: nigel@ese.essex.ac.uk (Nigel S.H. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth on the Amiga
Keywords: amiga, jforth, multiforth, mvp, a4th
Message-ID: <1261@servax0.essex.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jul 89 18:07:27 GMT
References: <20076@cup.portal.com> <12575@well.UUCP>
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In article <12575@well.UUCP> jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>
>	The best Amiga Forth, JForth, runs roughly at 80% the speed of
>a C application, while occupying somewhat less memory. I have a 5-k
>demo that opens a window and an autorequester then flakes off when
>you make a selection.
>

An application in almost any language will run at about the same speed
when it spends most of the time doing system calls (especially window
management ones). We need some benchmarks.

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