i have written a couple of forth-like languages (which were pretty fast) but i can imagine extending a forth to use registers, if they were available. Also, no

i have written a couple of forth-like languages (which were pretty fast) but i can imagine extending a forth to use registers, if they were available. Also, no virtual machine, at least for a machine code implementation. I wrote a forth like in c++ to implement adventure games, but the first I wrote was in z80 assembler, no vm.