2021-11-22 16:36:40 <rick_carlino1> Has anyone ever seen a Forth with a 256 bit cell size?

2021-11-22 21:00:41 rick_carlino1: I haven't encountered any so far

2021-11-22 21:21:42 <rick_carlino1> I've been glancing at the Ethereum Virtual Machine's archtiecture and it looks like they built the VM on a 256 bit wordsize. In the case of the EVM it appears that they did that so that the VM could work with an entire 256 bit key.

2021-11-22 21:21:56 <rick_carlino1> That seems like an absurdly large word size for a stack machine, but maybe it isn't?

2021-11-22 21:22:49 <rick_carlino1> Like, it seems so absurd that I never bothered to actually consider it. So I was curious if anyone in the Forth community has tried it.

2021-11-22 21:23:17 <rick_carlino1> If you had that big of a word size, it would seem you could do things like have tagged types or fat pointers and such