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Subject: Forth vs. C
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Date: 15 Feb 91 02:07:38 GMT
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> 1) Most (if not all) 'C' system run a grate deal slower than FORTH.

This does not agree with my experience.

>  Roy Goddard of MPE has coded an application in both Forth and MicroSoft C,
>  apparently he had to re-write most of the library functions in Assembler
>  before the C could get anywhere near the speed of the Forth.

In general, it depends on the C implementation, the Forth implementation,
the processor, the system, the application, the skill of the programmers,
and the programmer's "wizardry" level in the respective languages.

The whole benchmarking game is fraught with traps for the unwary.  Broad
comparisons should be taken with a grain of salt.


Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM