StrongForth for Linux (and windows)

Hi,

Has anyone seen, or implemented, a version of StrongForth that works
natively on Linux (or preferably, builds/runs natively on several
platforms)?

Seems a bit weird to me that a Forth with such promise is presently
imprisoned inside a DOS environment.

Cheers
Dave

At present StrongForth is only available for DOS, because I focused on
completing the list of supported word sets, the documentation and an OO
library. But I'm currently working on an implementation of StrongForth in
ANS Forth, which runs on top of every ANS Forth system, including those
based on Linux. The first release is to be expected within the next couple
of months.

Of course, I will support anyone's efforts in porting StrongForth to Linux
....

Regards,
Stephan

"DavidM" <nospam@nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi,
>
> Has anyone seen, or implemented, a version of StrongForth that works
> natively on Linux (or preferably, builds/runs natively on several
> platforms)?
>
> Seems a bit weird to me that a Forth with such promise is presently
> imprisoned inside a DOS environment.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:46:59 +0200, Stephan Becher wrote:
> At present StrongForth is only available for DOS, because I focused on
> completing the list of supported word sets, the documentation and an OO
> library. But I'm currently working on an implementation of StrongForth
> in ANS Forth, which runs on top of every ANS Forth system, including
> those based on Linux. The first release is to be expected within the
> next couple of months.

That sounds good - but will it suffer a performance penalty?

"DavidM" <nospam@nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:46:59 +0200, Stephan Becher wrote:
>> At present StrongForth is only available for DOS, because I focused on
>> completing the list of supported word sets, the documentation and an OO
>> library. But I'm currently working on an implementation of StrongForth
>> in ANS Forth, which runs on top of every ANS Forth system, including
>> those based on Linux. The first release is to be expected within the
>> next couple of months.
>
> That sounds good - but will it suffer a performance penalty?

I don't think so. The implementation takes full advantage of all
optimizations of the host system's compiler, because it directly uses
LITERAL and COMPILE, and all existing defining words . And with it's static
data type system, StrongForth does not have any inherent performance
deficit.

Regards,
Stephan

DavidM <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Stephan Becher wrote:
>
> > But I'm currently working on an implementation of StrongForth
> > in ANS Forth, which runs on top of every ANS Forth system, including
> > those based on Linux. The first release is to be expected within the
> > next couple of months.
>
> That sounds good - but will it suffer a performance penalty?

If it does, it will surely be easier to improve it than it would be to
implement StrongForth from scratch on your system. You can measure the
performance penalties and decide what to do about them.