Re: Cross compiling

On 2021-03-01 07:32PM, Ethan Gardener wrote:
>jonesforth.f is shorter than jonesforth.S, but so much of both files are comments, it's hard to compare the code sizes.

But they're not the same thing, are they? They're two parts of the same system. jonesforth.S is the core engine that is written in asm, jonesforth.f is the rest of the system that builds on top and is written in Forth.

>I imagine JonesForth's double-indirect threading would be good for 8-bit systems.

Did he ever get his terminology straight? That was always my main beef with JonesForth: he didn't understand what direct/indirect threading actually referred to. I tried to help straighten things out (as did, I think, a couple of the long-time comp.lang.forth regulars) but he was sure that he knew better than anyone else.

--Josh