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From: a684@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Metacompiling and C Forth 83
Message-ID: <4104@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 13:51:47 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) writes:

> That metacompiler could be written in Forth, and by running it on top of C
> Forth 83, it would run on anything that anybodys likely to want to use as a
development platform.  (And C Forth 83 is cheap).

How slow would that be, compared to a FORTH compiler written for any particular
processor?