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From: jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (Jesup)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: FORTH for the Amiga
Message-ID: <953@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 17:32:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: kbsvax.953
Posted: Sat Oct 18 17:32:24 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 23:27:02 EDT
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Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.UUCP (Jesup)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: forth, amiga

In article <594@kodak.UUCP> corpenin@kodak.UUCP (darrell corpening) writes:
>Has anyone done a comparison of the various FORTH's available for the CA?
>o  JForth is about $100 and claims blazing speed and says it will
>run sieve in 10 sec.
   
	I believe their numbers, because I wrote a subroutine threaded Forth
for the amiga that does it in 9 sec (for 10 iterations.)  I may release it
to the net, if I ever have time to clean it up a little.

>o  Mach1 was suppose to be out in Sept., but haven't seen
>anything yet -- However, they claim to run sieve in 2-3 sec. on a MAC.

	I don't believe that, if it's for 10 iterations, unless they did
it entirely in assembler.  More probably one iteration, which fits with
a very fast threaded version, or a slow subroutine threaded version.

Randell Jesup			jesup@ge-crd.ARPA
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