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Diff for /gforth/NEWS between version 1.8 and 1.9

version 1.8, Sat Sep 23 18:20:18 2000 UTC version 1.9, Sun Feb 23 21:16:59 2003 UTC
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   User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:
   
   added words: EDIT-LINE ID. .ID CONST-DOES> K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID WORDLIST-WORDS
   
   Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
     the header format).
   
   Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
     new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
     stack and instruction stream).
   
   New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the
     following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability),
     with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor
     2).  New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some
     backwards-compatibility problems (see "Invoking Gforth" in the
     manual).
   
 User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:  User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:
   
 Changes in behaviour:  Changes in behaviour:


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