Sujet : Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]
De : anton (at) *nospam* mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Groupes : comp.lang.forthDate : 13. Sep 2024, 19:07:34
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID : <2024Sep13.200734@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
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dxf <
dxforth@gmail.com> writes:
Claims made in respect of locals in forth - ease of use, better performance
through less 'stack juggling', better readability/maintainability - were all
made in the 1980's.
Where can I find claims about better performance? All I have read is
claims about worse performance.
What has changed? Forthers today are more willing to
believe, to accept the word of authority
Is that why you cite Chuck Moore on locals rather than arguing from
facts?
- anton
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