address of some (lower level) code to perform the required
operation. This kind of virtual machine can be implemented
instruction.
Many
Forth implementations use threaded code and nowadays
some use the term "threading" for almost any technique used to
implement Forth's virtual machine.
["James R. Bell", "Threaded Code", CACM, 1973, 16, 6, pp
370-372].
["An Architectural Trail to Threaded Code Systems", Kogge,
P. M., IEEE Computer, March 1982].
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