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Forth83 Benchmarks#

Below is a collection of some Benchmarks for Forth83 systems like VolksForth.

I found most of these benchmarks on comp.lang.forth, Hans Bzemers 4th and Marcel Hendrix benchmark collection

Integer Calculations #

32000 constant intMax

variable intResult

: DoInt
  1 dup intResult dup >r !
  begin
    dup intMax <
  while
    dup negate r@ +! 1+
    dup r@ +! 1+
    r@ @ over * r@ ! 1+
    r@ @ over / r@ ! 1+
  repeat
  r> drop drop
;