PFE Documentation (for Release 0.30.x)

Make A New Dist

how to create a new tarball or series of RPM packages, or to recreate the autoref documentation.

Tuning The Forth VM

explains steps to enhance the speed of the Forth VM

How To Write A PFE Module

explains the steps to create a dynamically loadable pfe extension module

Some Internal Decisions

explains the structure of the headers of forth words and the reasons for its differences over FIG-forth

StateSmart words

PFE has made many compile-only words statesmart to make life of a regular forth user easier. However, it can mean trouble if used with postpone . Here are the details.

Special Implementation Strategies

explains the solutions that were take to common problems in the implementation of an ansiforth'94 compatible system and the means to extend such a system.

Dirk Zoller's README

the README from PFE version 0.9.10

the License

is the LGPL - the Lesser GNU Public License

Literature

references to (online) literature