Re: Why is GForth-ITC fast?

brian.fox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes Re: Why is GForth-ITC fast?
[..]
> variable x

\ Suggest: 
1024 allot

> : test!
>      100 0 do
>      30000 0 do
>      \ 100 ! store ops
>        i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i x !  i
x !
[..]
>      loop
>      loop ;

> \ Benchmarks done on AMD Sempron 1.6 GHz, with 1 Gb RAM; Windows XP SP2
> \ Hs/Forth
> \ elapse test!
> \ Elapsed time =00:00:05.22 ok
> \ Hs/Forth
> \ elapse test!!
> \ Elapsed time =00:00:05.22 ok
> \  28% slower than GForth (below)

These timings are ridiculous. Test! takes 180 ms on my PIV 3 GHz.
Does it help if you add a gap between variable x and test! ?

-marcel