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Brief: Umbilical Development for Small Targets
- lebuffon 5y agoAn interesting development from Microsoft robotics team. They appear to have pulled together a lot of ideas together that have been in use in commercial Forth systems for 25 years and added some cutting edge Forth ideas. - implicit call bit. Important to manage code size in Forth where calls are used a great deal. (1st seen in Chuck Moore's silicon designs) - sub-routine threading: faster than in-direct or direct threaded code - tail call optimization, not often seen in Forth compilers - umbilical architecture: compiler on host/code on target - consistent RPN syntax - quotations. Not standardized in Forth but implemented in multiple ways in various systems.