On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 08:05:00 -0700 Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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