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I'd rather say it begun to be a focus with its latest processors because it's the only hope they have to sell Forth processors. I remember he mentioned introducing a lot of complexity in its previous design to achieve very high speed for exactly the same reason (the only hope we have to sell a Forth processor is to make it super-fast), which was a bit in contradiction with the reason why he moved from software to hardware - simplifying globally the hardware/software combo.