README

Firth
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Firth is an experimental evolution of Forth geared around the following concepts:

	* 2 stack w/ registers architecture on a modern 64bit x86_64 CPU
	* direct low level system interface, not requiring any C code
	* object oriented memory usage with message passing via registers
	* one process per object threaded model
	* message passing as flow control
	* one concurrent process per processor core (vcpu)
	* just in time compilation for everything (no interpreter)
	* prototypal inheritance with deep copy semantics
	* virtual machine as the base object
	* persistent system images

The goal of Firth is to build a modern Forth that adopts a Erlang meets Self
process/object model.  While initially targeting 64bit x86_64, it should be
retargetable with minimal effort to other processors, such as ARM.  


Building
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To build:

	make

This will produce a firth binary and a image file.


Running
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To run:

./f

This will run firth on the image file in a raw tty.


Contributing
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Firth is being released under a BSD 3-clause license.  See the COPYING file for details.  If you would like to contribute back to Firth,
feel free to send an email to dave at dloh.org

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