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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:35:39 GMT
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
>The theory is that assembler Forth are less portable.
>I had a 64 bit ciforth running in a matter of weeks (2008).

Gforth ran on AMD64 out of the box in 2003.  With a little more effort
(<2h) some additional performance features were enabled.  Similar on
IA-64 (2003), ARM A64 (2014), and RV64GC (2018).

- anton
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