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+**Yes – minimal but noted.**
+
+https://github.com/guitarvydas/forthish is a **low-activity educational repo** (26 commits, 1 star, last touched years ago) containing **progressive Python prototypes** that teach Forth internals by building up from scratch.
+
+### What aligns (conceptually useful for your dictionary / threading baseline before x86 asm)
+- **Direct Threaded Code (DTC)** implementation (explicitly called out in `fcomp.py`):  
+  > "If you care, this is effectively a DTC (Direct Threaded Code) implementation."
+
+- **Execution tokens (`xt`)** + classic dictionary layout (name field / link field / code field) in `fram.py`.
+
+- **Compilation state machine** (`state` var: 0=interpret, 1=compile) + colon definitions (`:`, `;`, `if`/`else`/`then`, literals, branches) in `fcomp.py`.
+
+- Progressive layering:  
+  `simple.py` (bare stack + parser)  
+  `fram.py` (dictionary + `xt` + `execute`)  
+  `fvars.py` (memory, `!` `@` `,`)  
+  `fcomp.py` (full user words + DTC)
+
+No ColorForth, no 32-bit tokens/tags, no sourceless, no hex-editor, no tape-drive scatter, no 2-reg stack, no x86-64/machine-code, no live reload, no Lottes/Onat mentions.
+
+It does link out to things you already have (colorforth.github.io, JonesForth, Chuck Moore papers).
+
+**Bottom line:** Pure high-level teaching aid for understanding DTC / `xt` / dictionary mechanics in a readable Python form. Not a direct blueprint for your zero-overhead x86 token array + hex frontend, but could serve as a clean reference if you want to sketch the threading model before dropping it into asm.
+
+That’s everything worthwhile in the repo. Nothing deeper.
+
+---
+
+**Yes.**
+
+Zydis **fully supports encoding** (code generation / assembling raw bytes from instruction structs) via the stable `ZydisEncoder` API.
+
+- Core library (not separate module)
+- Production-ready since ~v4.0 (current stable: v4.1.1 as of Feb 2025)
+- Zero dynamic allocation, thread-safe, tiny overhead — perfect fit for your instant <5 ms token → x86-64 emission in the sourceless ColorForth derivative
+- Companion **zasm** (https://github.com/zyantific/zasm) gives AsmJit-style C++ frontend on top of the same encoder (mentioned in your ASM_Notes)
+
+### Minimal encoding example (C, direct from official README)
+```c
+ZydisEncoderRequest req;
+memset(&req, 0, sizeof(req));
+
+req.mnemonic = ZYDIS_MNEMONIC_MOV;
+req.machine_mode = ZYDIS_MACHINE_MODE_LONG_64;
+req.operand_count = 2;
+req.operands[0].type = ZYDIS_OPERAND_TYPE_REGISTER;
+req.operands[0].reg.value = ZYDIS_REGISTER_RAX;
+req.operands[1].type = ZYDIS_OPERAND_TYPE_IMMEDIATE;
+req.operands[1].imm.u = 0x1337;
+
+ZyanU8 encoded[ZYDIS_MAX_INSTRUCTION_LENGTH];
+ZyanUSize len = sizeof(encoded);
+
+if (ZYAN_SUCCESS(ZydisEncoderEncodeInstruction(&req, encoded, &len))) {
+    // encoded now holds e.g. 48 C7 C0 37 13 00 00
+}
+```
+
+This is exactly the kind of zero-overhead emitter you can drop into your 32-bit token compiler loop (pair with Zydis decoder for round-tripping if needed).
+
+Full docs: https://doc.zydis.re/v4.1.0/html/group__encoder  
+Repo: https://github.com/zyantific/zydis (examples/ folder has more)
+
+Nothing else needed unless you want a stripped minimal build snippet or zasm wrapper example.