Forth vs. Asm

[Whammo]

 : bneck begin chrin ?dup while emit repeat ;

                 or

code bneck
           w stx,
here
       $ffcf jsr,
+branch
             beq,
swap
       $ffd2 jsr,
             jmp,
:+
           w ldx,
;code

edit: playing with the editor

[jkotlinski]

Oh! Gotta say I way prefer Forth in this case!

[Whammo]

I think so too. They're equivalent, and for me the assembly is easier to read like this on the machine, it's still not as easy to read as the Forth.
I suppose the assembly is faster too, but what is slow is the Kernal and the serial bus.