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Subject: Re: Actually... why =?UTF-8?B?bm90Pw==?=
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> It requires more work in COMPILE, than just doing a ",".  But having a
> user-extensible intelligent COMPILE, (like Gforth) offers a number of
> advantages, especially for native-code compilers.

Indeed I din't check Gforth yesterday, focusing
on compilers for MS-DOS.

It's actually unbelievable! All it takes is rather
minor modification in INTERPRET. So throughout
all these years since 70s FORTH could execute
the programs significantly faster - but they
were all the time selling/giving away the listings
that DIDN'T feature such advantageous change?
And even today the compiler creators don't apply
it, for no particular reason?

Somehow it's beyond me; I don't understand why
NOT to do it immediately and everywhere. "More
work for a compiler"? It'll take it, I believe. :D
Just modified that fig-Forth I'm tinkering with
- works like a charm.

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