All this talk about FORTH makes me wonder.
I wonder if SD card reads, with the Nano for instance, could be optimized well enough that running FORTH byte code from a SD card would be fast enough for many projects.?
Just add a SD card connector and suddenly there would be vast amounts of space for code. Or even one of those 99 cent multi megabyte serial flash chips.
Many of us already have a SD card in some of our projects by virtual of having a TFT display, with a tag along SD card connector included. ?
Then that starts thinking about the more general case of languages that compile to "P" code. How efficient are P byte code interpreter loops compared to a FORTH byte code interpreter loop. Is one more magically efficient than the other.?
Because we all likely have ATMega328 and close relatives AVR processors in our parts boxes, it is fun to think of ways to extend their usefulness at low cost.?
Here is a random C to FORTH complier I found on Github.
Tom, wb6b
