Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
Message-ID: <182@array.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 90 01:47:07 GMT
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In article <24358@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> Sure.  Any inner-interpreter type of code is easiest in assembler. Things
> like Forth threading are harder to do in C than assembler because Forth
> assumes is really big on treating addresses as data and vica versa. In
> addition, it is usually only 3-6 instructions to do an inner-interpreter
> step and the more speed you can get, the better.          -- Darren

Well, the Forth inner interpreter is roughly analagous to a C compiler's
entry and exit code, so writing it in assembler is to be expected.
As you said, it's 3-6 instructions (I think I needed 3 when I did it on a VAX).
Not exactly a large chunk of code. 
-- 
	-Colin