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Which compiler, and for what purpose - did you end up buying? What does it give you beyond the many open implementations? On a side note - anyone know if green
by e12e 7y ago
Which compiler, and for what purpose - did you end up buying? What does it give you beyond the many open implementations?
On a side note - anyone know if greenarrays is still delivering hw? Those multicore forth chips really seemed nice (and crazy).
- TurboHaskal 7y agoMostly performance. GForth is slow compared to the optimising compilers (I know about gforth-fast already). Also I don't care that much about open source. I'm old enough not to be opposed to the idea of buying compilers. I ended up with iForth which is well priced, targets 64bit and has a simple license. Here's a feature list http://users.bart.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html http://users.bart.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html SwiftForth and VFX are awesome as well but 32bit only and can't justify paying that much at this point.
- e12e 7y agoHm, I hadn't really thought about optimizing compilers for forth... I wonder if the strategies are different than for eg c or Pascal compilers. I guess the situation is simalar for other closed compilers (Intel c, high perf Java compiler/VMs etc).