Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!VPFVM.BITNET!XRBEO From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: FORTH for unix? Message-ID: <8807211846.AA27919@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Jul 88 17:29:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International List Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 A few comments from someone who's only had a little experience. Most of the time xxx for unix implys xxx in C. I've played around with forth written in C and the problem I've always had is getting C to have a "Jump" table for quick vectoring of the "CODE" words (which are actually written in C). A few (MANY?) C compilers can support pointers to functions which would seem to work if you had an array of pointers to functions, but just using a large switch statement would seem to be quite slow. Just a few random thoughts. Maybe someone with more experience could also comment? bruce