Forth benchmark and Forth "live-coding"

Carsten Strotmann

In this exibition I will help people with their Forth-Benchmark entries for the "Ultimate Benchmark" https://theultimatebenchmark.org/

Between the Forth-Benchmark work, I will show some Forth live coding on various retro machines (Atari ST, MS-DOS, …) where people can watch, ask questions and discuss Forth related matters.

Language: German / English

This session will start benchmarking a couple of Forth systems for the Atari ST that currently do not have entries in the Benchmark table https://theultimatebenchmark.org/ .

Later on the session I will try SectorForth → https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth, a 16bit Forth for the 386+ PC that fits into a 512byte bootsector.

After the Forth Workshop, I'll try to implement the non-standard FOR-NEXT loop for VolksForth.

At any time, you can contact me about the Forth Benchmark competition.

The benchmark competition has two goals:

• provide motivation for the people at VCFe / VCFb (or other Retro meetings) to do some "practical" work on their machine while having the systems on display
• have fun with the machines

Being precise, accurate or producing meaningful benchmark results is actually not the goal :)

The main goal is: try to get the best possible result while still having fun!

Rules

• any Forth permitted
• any Machine (Retro machines 15 years and older are preferred)
• each participant can enter a submission for each combination of Forth-System and Machine with at least three (3) of the Benchmarks from https://theultimatebenchmark.org/
• The winner will be drawn at the end of the event out of all submissions
• the more combinations of Forth systems and retro machines one participant has submitted, the greater is the statistical chance to win

Please send your Benchmark results per mail to forthbenchmark@strotmann.de or @cstrotm@mastodon.social until 17:00 CEST on Sunday 11th October.

There will be price drawing on Sunday during the closing event

https://bbb.vcfb.de/b/cst-drc-n6m-dvh