Re: Stack vs stackless operation

On 25/02/2025 6:49 am, LIT wrote:

I wonder: wouldn't it be useful to have stackless basic
arith operations? I mean instead of fetching the values
first and putting them on the stack, then doing something,
and in the end storing the result somewhere wouldn't it
be practical to use directly the variables? Like this:
 
: +> ( addr1 addr2 addr3 -- )
 rot @ rot @ + swap ! ;
 
Of course the above is just an illustration; I mean coding
such word directly in ML. It should be significantly
faster than going through stack usual way.

A set of three addresses on the stack is messy even before
one does anything with them.