Welcome to my personal/professional pages.
The information here is mostly related to the programming language Forth
(iForth, tForth, eForth, mxForth).
You will find benchmarks to measure Forth's performance on sometimes obsolete but mostly modern operating systems.
See this general computing-intensive Forth FP bench.
Of historical value is the in-depth information on writing a parallel Forth compiler for the INMOS transputer.
This chip went out of production in 1998, but the ideas of tForth are being used in iForth, my own Forth language implementation.
Another esoteric subject not discussed in too many other places is metacompilation. Check out the information on the free mxForth meta compiler.
Still another interest of mine is circuit simulation. See this AC circuit simulator package with built-in (i)Forth.
For the curious, because Forth is a much too complicated language for the pyjama people, the iForth documentation and glossary are online. (Do not read if you are easily offended.)
Last but not least, my algorithmically generated (by Forth programs) MIDI files are offered here for simultaneous aural stimulation purposes.
iForth 4.0, the final 32-bit release combined with the new 64-bits chassis, can be ordered on line.
Delivery will be by download from a secure web-site, although CDROM media are available by request.
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Links to all iForth pages on this server
Leo Brodie's Starting Forth (online book, the original, unabridged, conventional HTMLized, but officially approved version!).
Jack W. Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler series (code and text translated to Forth).
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