DMD 1.005 release

John Reimer terminal.node at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 12:31:29 PST 2007


On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:12:24 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For
Email) wrote:

> Andreas Kochenburger wrote:
>> Kevin Bealer wrote:
>>> Charles D Hixson wrote:
>>> But the central feature of FORTH is that the compiler and runtime can 
>>> be made mind-bogglingly small.  I think the run time speed for a naive 
>>> interpretation is probably somewhere between C and interpreted bytecode.
>>>
>>>  From this page about tiny4th: http://www.seanet.com/~karllunt/tiny4th
>>>
>>> "The run-time engine takes up less than 1K of code space and the 
>>> p-codes are so dense that you can get a lot of robot functionality in 
>>> just 2K."
>> 
>> Before someone thinks, Forth is only a play-thing, see 
>> http://www.forth.com/
> 
> There's an extra comma in there that pretty much changes the meaning of 
> the sentence :o).
> 
> Andrei


Funny!

:D

-JJR



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