(author) > In other words, like a bytecode VM? Kind of, but it's still Forth of the era, so it's still threaded execution. You're still jumping from execution

(author) > In other words, like a bytecode VM? Kind of, but it's still Forth of the era, so it's still threaded execution. You're still jumping from execution address to execution address (either native 68000 code or another set of Forth words heralded by a JMP to the nesting subroutine); you just have a layer of indirection by having to look them up in the token table first.