Re: Stack vs stackless operation

I remain skeptical of such optimizations.  Not even twice the
performance
and the hope it represents a bottle-neck in order to realize that gain.

I've got a feeling it would have more
of a significance in 8088 era, say IBM 5150
or XTs. 486 is already "too good" probably
to see as much as 50% gain.
I've got working XT board - if I manage to
get at least FDD interface for that (no,
not today... it'll take some time) I'll
do some more testing.
In general I've got a feeling, that this
approach may be the more profitable, the
less suitable for Forth CPU is - say 8051
lacking registers.
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