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From: liebman@xrxns.UUCP (Chris Liebman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ROMable Forth
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 09:19:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 09:19:02 1987
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Keywords: rom forth direct-threading

In article <2.21049C34@circle.UUCP> David_Douthitt@circle.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
>Has anyone had any experience with implementing a ROMable Forth?

A while back (3-4 years) I hacked a fig-forth to run out of ROM on a 6809
board that I had lying around.  No, I don't have it any more :-(.

>Also, I've been dismayed at Forth performances that ive seen... I compared two 

Have you tried ISYS-Forth?  It's a direct threaded forth implementation.  I
have played around with this a little and seem to run very fast. It also 
contains code for the 65816.

	-- Chris