On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:53, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 08:05:00 -0700
Randall R Schulz
wrote: If speed is an issue, a purely interpreted language (unlike contemporary JVMs which perform native code translation) will never give good speed.
Actually, I've seen well written Forth code do very well. We had a 3270 terminal emulation system on an 8085 processor where we bit a system with Forth as the high level language, and Forth did very well, albeit that Forth is interpreted, and did better than the assembler language version of the same emulator product.
That undoubtedly says more about how hard it is to write assembly than it does about the inherent speed potential of FORTH vs. assembly. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org