Re: Why is GForth-ITC fast?

> >2. Are you going to eventually go AMD64/EM64T given the extra no. of
> >registers and instructions?

> Yes. But the astoni****ng rise of *cheap* Linux boxes with 486
> class CPUs means that we have to sup****t 32 bit for a very long
> time to come. See
>   http://www.mpeforth.com/ngr.htm
> for the eBox2300 family as an example.

That's a surprise: I didn't think anyone was still making 32-bit x86
processors.

Andrew.