From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 7 16:34:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09245 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:34:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp4.portal.net.au [202.12.71.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09220 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01279; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812080032.QAA01279@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:27:57 +0900." <366BC9CD.304D2049@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:32:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just learned about the addition of FICL to FreeBSD, I decided to > resubscribe (for a while, at least) to -current just to discuss this. > I should have expected: I had to distance myself from both FreeBSD and > Forth for a while and look what happens! :-) 8) > Ok, my two cents, though I still haven't read all the archive: You might want to get in touch with John Saunders (is that right?) as he's been tickling a few things for us. > > > whether there's much we can strip from the core wordset; I'll leave > > > that for the FORTH guruen to argue over. At 22k (plus whatever it > > > > As I said above, we probably can strip CORE-EXT and SEARCH - I wouldn't > > touch the CORE itself, however. > > I have yet to check out how the source is being handled, but I here is > my possibly irrelevant comments. I'll strive to get up to date before > adding any more cents to the vending machine, though... :-) > > CORE can be stripped. There is a lot of words in ANS' CORE that are > reduntant. Here, CORE represents more legacy than anything else. > > But I'd like this system to remain ANS in it's FreeBSD distribution. I think that this is a good point. And in fact I think it's probably worthwhile keeping the runtime ANS unless it's *really* hurting us for space (which it isn't right now). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message