!!!Forth83 Benchmarks

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

I found most of these benchmarks on [comp.lang.forth|http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth], [Hans Bzemers|http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/] [4th|http://www.xs4all.nl/~thebeez/4tH/foldtree.html] and Marcel Hendrix [benchmark collection|http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/monsterbench.html]

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!!Integer Calculations 

{code}
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
;
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