# Native Factor progress

## Slava Pestov — 2004-07-12 06:40:51

    Hi everybody,

    I've done a lot of work on the C port of Factor in the last few days.

    Notable achievements:

    - The VM is now 16kb when compiled -- the library image is 71kb.

    - Console I/O.

    - There is a now simple parser, written in Factor itself.

    - The "see" word to view in-memory word definitions now works.

    - The ".s" word to inspect stack contents now works.

    - There is a garbage collector -- it is a stop and copy collector, using

    Cheney's algorithm.

    You can get the latest code from factor.sourceforge.net.

    Now my plans are:

    - Proper error handling, catch/throw. This will be added to the Java

    Factor as well.

    - File and network I/O.

    - Getting the inspector to run.

    - Getting the HTTPD to run.

    - Getting the image cross-compiler to run.

    - Floating point, ratio, bignum and complex math.

    - Asynchronous I/O.

    Slava