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- From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
- Subject: Re: Sampler Forth
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:49:24 GMT
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- toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
-
- >Likewise, I've been compiling Forth since 1982. Compiled Forth has always
- >had an execution speed and code size edge over C, that is only narrowing now
- >because the C compilers are finally getting sophisticated. (It is much
- >easier to optimize a Forth compiler)
-
- It's nice that you can optimize a compiler, but can you optimize a
- program? Are there any Forth compilers out there that will do constant
- folding, find loop invariants, or even do simple peephole optimization?
- I've heard something about the RTX people at Harris doing a bit of
- work on optimization before they disbanded, but I don't know any details.
-
- Peter Desnoyers
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