23 Jun
2021
23 Jun
'21
11:42 a.m.
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 13:36 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Typical FORTH implementations are neat in that
respect, since they
use a threaded code encoding that allows for fast and efficient
switching between threaded code (subroutine calls) and straight
machine code.
I have a vague recollection of a story about a FORTH processor that put
the addresses of the functions to be executed on the return-address
stack (68000?) and then executed a RETURN instruction.