Considering that some Forth implementations were custom hardware that directly implemented the language semantics, it was often quite fast, yes. Most of the big

Considering that some Forth implementations were custom hardware that directly implemented the language semantics, it was often quite fast, yes. Most of the bigger Forth systems (gForth, WinForth, BigForth) have some form of threading/task management. The smaller ones, which are often the ones expecting to run natively on microcontrollers with no operating system, expect you to write your own if you need it.