Supported Forth enginesFFL will run on and is tested with the following forth engines : For these forth engines there is a config file present in the distribution package. Unsupported Forth EnginesFFL will not run on the following forth engines : | Engine | Version | Reason | | kForth | | Missing ANS words | | ciforth | | Case sensitive | | pforth | | Missing ANS words | | isforth | | Missing ANS words | | 4th | | Missing ANS words | | helforth | 2.51 | Missing ANS words |
Not yet checked Forth EnginesEnvironmental dependenciesA few modules have environmental dependencies. As a result they will not be present for some forth engines. For these modules you should test the presence of the version constant after loading the module (see Getting started). | | GForth | BigForth | PFE | Win32Forth | MinForth | iForth | SP-Forth | lxf/ntf | | Argument Parser (arg) | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | | Distributed Random Number Generator (rdg) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | | Timer (tmr) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BenchmarksVersion 0.7.0| | GForth | BigForth | PFE | Win32Forth | MinForth | SP-Forth | lxf | | Compile Time (msec) | 850 | 328 | 517 | 1248 | 3780 | 2530 | 310 | | Compile Size (bytes) | 224912 | 196089 | 209764 | 203748 | 215676 | 201260 | 206142 | | Test Time (sec) | 4.1 | 3.4 | 11.2 | 11.3 | 49.0 | 5.6 | 2.0 |
Version 0.6.0| | GForth | BigForth | PFE | Win32Forth | MinForth | | Compile Time (msec) | 1774 | 352 | 720 | 2630 | 9440 | | Compile Size (bytes) | 169560 | 146406 | 166704 | 97176 | 106600 | | Test Time (sec) | 7.9 | 8.2 | 24.1 | 15.3 | 140.2 |
Version 0.5.0| | GForth | BigForth | PFE | Win32Forth | MinForth | | Compile Time (msec) | 1020 | 220 | 374 | 1760 | 6100 | | Compile Size (bytes) | 132724 | 115090 | 133796 | 75696 | 83128 | | Test Time (sec) | 6.8 | 8.2 | 23.6 | 14.3 | 132.9 |
Version 0.4.0| | GForth | BigForth | PFE | Win32Forth | | Compile Time (msec) | 690 | 158 | 255 | 1200 | | Compile Size (bytes) | 103132 | 89710 | 112628 | 59660 | | Test Time (sec) | 3.8 | 6.2 | 9.2 | 9.6 |
Legenda: - The Compile Time is the time required to include all modules in the dictionary.
- The Compile Size is the space required in the dictionary to include all modules.
- The Test time is the time required to include and run all the test scripts.
Notes: - Benchmarks for versions 0.4.0 till 0.6.0 were done on a Celeron 700 MHZ.
- Benchmarks for version 0.7.0 were done on an Athlon 64 X2 1800MHZ
PortingAs already stated the FFL is mostly written in ANS forth. If the forth engine you are using, is not listed in the Engines page and it conforms to the ANS-standard, you can try porting ffl to your forth engine by adding words to and removing words from the ffl/config.fs file. If you succeed, you can send me the config.fs file so that I can add it to the distribution. 
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