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Thank you, I didn't know about the jsr instruction. I always imagined forth does this somehow with jmps. Another main difference from true compiled code is tha

Thank you, I didn't know about the jsr instruction. I always imagined forth does this somehow with jmps. Another main difference from true compiled code is that your entire program consists of subroutine calls. There are no inline instructions and a main function. I've got a lot of reading to do on this. "Indirect jsr", I'll experiment with this. Okay I'm convinced, forth is not interpreted when it's compiled to threaded code :). There is no main loop that reads instructions and dispatches them dynamically, the program flow is linear with subroutine calls stacked under each other.

dreamcompiler 4y ago
Exactly. And there are many other inline instructions (e.g. for doing arithmetic etc) but I didn't show them here. Any instruction the CPU supports can be present in a Forth program. In a compiled Forth, words can be specified as a list of calls to other Forth words or as raw assembly instructions, or both.
- terminalcommand 4y ago
  Thank you for the explanation. Wow, these were questions stuck in my mind for a long time. Things make sense now.