Re: SHARC
I'd beg to differ. I wrote a Forth for the ADSP2181, the SHARC's
16 bit sibling, and it was really, really fast. The '2181 at
33 MHz runs Forth about as fast as an 8 MHz RTX2001.
And I was generating 640x350 monochrome video at the same time.
-Dave
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, vic plichota wrote:
> >Out of curiousity: is the SHARC architecture
> >suitable for Forth?
>
> No, it is not. If you don't believe me, then try it sometime, and
> you'll see what I mean... it can be done, but it's a bitch -- fussy
> and complicated.
>
>
> >(Due to it's limited on-die memory
>
> Bullshit -- even the cheapest SHARC variant is blessed with copious
> on-chip RAM -- at least for my purposes.
>
>
> RTFM - vic
>
>
