2022-10-22 10:17:22 <olle        > I once was working on a "semantic" web browser that would show all websites the same way, disregarding CSS/JS. Never finished it. But maybe Forth could be a neat middle-ground for web crawling and getting latest news from a handful of sites.
2022-10-22 11:33:49 <olle        > Btw, what's Forth's relation to SIMD chips?
2022-10-22 11:34:49 <thrig       > what's Ada's relation to FPU chips?
2022-10-22 11:38:04 <olle        > Ada doesn't have floating point?
2022-10-22 11:39:05 <eris[m]     > it does
2022-10-22 11:39:18 <eris[m]     > theyre completely unrelated
2022-10-22 11:39:19 <eris[m]     > much as forth to simd chips
2022-10-22 11:43:11 <remexre     > it could be fun to do a 3-stack forth, where you've got an extra vector stack, but i dunno if that would actually be, like, ... good
2022-10-22 13:05:54 <gordonjcp   > surely you'd just drop the addres of your table of vectors on the stack and have at it
2022-10-22 13:24:00 <olle        > On google there's one forth clone doing simd on each instruction :d
2022-10-22 13:25:48 <olle        > Some shader thing
2022-10-22 13:26:01 <olle        > https://github.com/janm31415/vectorforth
2022-10-22 13:26:24 <olle        > "if you compile 1 2 +, then the result will obviously be 3, but actually you will get 16 times the result 3 (using AVX-512), "
2022-10-22 13:31:00 <eris[m]     > that seems wasteful
2022-10-22 13:31:35 <olle        > Electricity?
2022-10-22 13:31:38 <olle        > Time is the same
2022-10-22 14:39:04 <MrMobius    > Ive wondered if you could process multiple stack items at once with that to get a speed up
2022-10-22 14:39:21 <olle        > Unless they depend on each other, I guess
2022-10-22 14:39:28 <olle        > 1 2 3 + + won't work
2022-10-22 14:39:47 <MrMobius    > but maybe 1 2 + 3 4 + + would work
2022-10-22 14:39:56 <olle        > Yes :)
2022-10-22 14:40:10 <olle        > You "just" need a notation to tell the compiler about that relationship...
2022-10-22 14:40:57 <MrMobius    > ya or do some static analysis
2022-10-22 14:41:10 <MrMobius    > which is not very popular in forth for anything :)
2022-10-22 14:43:51 <thrig       > "the electronics fried itself after we applied static"
2022-10-22 14:44:03 <thrig       > could see why that isn't popular