Re: Small executables was Re: Test message

Sounds interesting!
What sorts of things do you do? Maybe we can talk Forth, Inc. into doing a
SwiftX port.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Cook [SMTP:wcc_at_jcook.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:12 AM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: [sftalk] Small executables was Re: Test message
>
> I too would like small executables.
>
> Most of my programming is for tools which do not require the windows
> GUI. I wish there were a 32 bit TCOM!
>
> Bill Cook
> Kent WA USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Dickow" <dickow_at_uidaho.edu>
> To: <sftalk_at_forth.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:01 AM
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: Test message
>
>
> > Suggestions... well, I remember I think Rick said this might not be
> feasible
> > for SwiftForth, but I would really like to see a 'clone' word, and I
> did
> > bring this up a couple of years ago. Let me explain:
> >
> > clone would engage a system that would compile only words that are
> needed by
> > the finished application, strip all the name fields, strip all
> unneeded code
> > and crunch it and optimize it to make very small executables, saving
> the
> > image on disk, and leaving the full system in memory when it was
> done, so
> > you could do it all again if you wanted to.
> >
> > I have an old Amiga direct threaded Forth called JForth (maybe you
> know it)
> > by Phil Burk and a few other folks that did just this. I never
> looked at the
> > internals of the clone code much, but there was very little problem
> with it
> > making code that would 'clone,' as we used to say. JForth also used
> to
> > optionally keep its dictionaries outside the main memory, in
> external
> > tables. It had quite a few very cool aspects, but it died along with
> the
> > Amiga before it could become fully ANS compliant. It's stuck in
> 83.It is
> > also freely available now somewhere on the web.
> >
> > It would make small apps, about 8k for a Hello World program. Try
> that in
> > SwiftForth and see what you get.
> >
> > Bob Dickow
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather_at_forth.com>
> >
> > > FYI we are working on an update to SwiftForth, so please send in
> whatever
> > > lists you may have of improvements we should consider!
> > >
> >
> >
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