--- gforth/doc/gforth.1 1999/04/16 22:19:51 1.4 +++ gforth/doc/gforth.1 2000/09/23 18:20:19 1.5 @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ .. .TH GForth 1 "April 14, 1999" \" -*- nroff -*- .SH NAME -gforth, gforthmi \- a fast and portable Forth system +gforth, gforth-fast, gforthmi \- a fast and portable Forth system .SH SYNOPSIS \fCgforth\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] +\fCgforth-fast\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] \fCgforthmi\fR \fIfilename\fR [initialization options] [image-specific options] .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -42,6 +43,12 @@ starts the system and goes into interact loads and interprets the files \fCfile1\fR and \fCfile2\fR, then exits. +\fCgforth-fast\fR + +is the same as \fCgforth-fast\fR, except that it does not support +accurate backtraces for signals, and is faster by up to a factor of 2. +Use it for debugged, performance-critical programs such as benchmarks. + \fCgforthmi asm.fi \-m 1M asm.fs\fR creates an image \fCasm.fi\fR that has a default dictionary size of