This is a old code of a forth i'm had written, perhaps it is of any interest.
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The old announcement

Ale forth features:

o    386/486 32 Bit Forth 
o    387/487 supported
o    Operating systems:
	SCO UNIX ( easy to port to other i386 Unixes )
	or MSDOS ( GNU DJGPP GO32 required )
o    Subroutine threading (optional)
o    Native code generation
o    Primitives inline expansion
o    Wordset of BASIS17
	CORE + EXT
	BLOCK + EXT
	DOUBLE + EXT
	FLOAT + EXT
	ERROR
	FACILITY
	FILE + EXT
	SEARCH + EXT
	STRING
	MEMORY
	TOOLKIT ( No code, ... )
     +  many own extensions
o    Metacompiler with assembler output ( GNU AS [34]86 format )

o    Extensible interpreter/compiler

Benchmarks:
  Sieve:
	  1000 times all primes from 1 to 16384
	  ( Timed on: i486/33 Mhz w cache, SCO Unix Multiuser )
	  ( Timed on: i386/33 Mhz w cache, MSDOS DJGPP go32 )

    GNU C compiler 1.40 WITH all optimizations on:
	  i486: 10 Seconds i386: 26 Seconds
    Ale Forth 2.03 with processor stack = parameter stack:
	  i486: 16 Seconds i386: 46 Seconds
    Microsoft C compiler WITH all optimizations on:
	  i486: 18 Seconds i386: not available
    Ale Forth 2.03 with processor stack = return stack:
	  i486: 25 Seconds i386: 64 Seconds

  Fibonacci:
	  Fibonacci of 35 (Recursive calculated)

    GNU C compiler 1.40 WITH all optimizations on:
	  i486: 23 Seconds
    Ale Forth 2.03 with processor stack = parameter stack:
	  i486: 25 Seconds
    Microsoft C compiler WITH all optimizations on:
	  i486: 27 Seconds
    Ale Forth 2.03 with processor stack = return stack:
	  i486: 37 Seconds

If you are interested in testing this send me an e-mail to request the sources.

					Johns	(Lutz Sammer)
johns@majestix.av.rwth-aachen.de
or
johns@tron.gun.de