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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:07:34 GMT
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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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