Re: [Bigforth-devel] Turnkey application problems

[David K. <dvd...@gm...>]

>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Paysan <ber...@gm...> writes:

> Am Sonntag, 27. März 2011, 13:20:57 schrieb David Kuehling:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm just trying to turn the brainless chess playing game [1] into a
>> windows turnkey application using bigforth-2.4.0.  Stumbled into two
>> problems so far:
>> 
>> - Default search path searches bigforth's library directories before
>> '.', so it does not load 'environ.fs' which is part of my project but
>> is shadowed by a file of the same name in the bigforth library
>> directory.

> Is this really the case?  The default search path starts with ., and
> when I put an "environ.fs" into the current directory, it loads from
> there.

For the linux version you're right.  In the windows version, the default
setting after installation resulted in 

  Path ";C:\Program Files\bigforth;."

> The way to go is to use the module system.
[..]

Ok, going to give this a try,

>> BTW on Linux, bigforth is still about 30% faster than Gforth-64bit
>> for the Brainless benchmark.  Probably Gforth bloats code too much
>> and relies too much on the (too small) BTB.

> Both.  It's rather the other way round: Being only 30% slower than
> bigForth is a huge achievement of Gforth's approach.

Well, I think I remember Anton claiming, Gforth were faster in his
micro-benchmarks.  Just wanted to point out, that Gforth doesn't fare so
well under real-world condidtions :)

cheers,

David
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