Re: Parsing timestamps?

Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> writes:

Once full native code compilation and optimisation is turned on, you
can get surprising results. At one stage we (MPE) de-localled a
substantial portion of the PowerNet TCP/IP stack - all in high-level
Forth. For the modified code, size decreased by 25% and performance
increased by 50%.

This demonstrates that you implemented locals less efficiently than
stack manipulation, not that locals are inevitably slow.  For more
information, see

@InProceedings{ertl22-locals,
  author =       {M. Anton Ertl},
  title =        {Are Locals Inevitably Slow?},
  crossref =     {euroforth22},
  pages =        {48--49},
  url =          {http://www.euroforth.org/ef22/papers/ertl-locals.pdf},
  url-slides =   {http://www.euroforth.org/ef22/papers/ertl-locals-slides.pdf},
  video =        {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPjSKetEJn0},
  OPTnote =      {presentation slides},
  abstract =     {Code quality of locals on two code examples on
                  various systems}
}

@Proceedings{euroforth22,
  title = {38th EuroForth Conference},
  booktitle = {38th EuroForth Conference},
  year = {2022},
  key = {EuroForth'22},
  url =          {http://www.euroforth.org/ef22/papers/proceedings.pdf}
}

- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: https://forth-standard.org/
EuroForth 2023 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef23/papers/
EuroForth 2024 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef24/papers/