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Subject: Re: Stack vs stackless operation
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> But, SQUARE is a high-level "colon" definition… [..]” etc.

> ( https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm )

> Many of these steps in particular cases can be avoided
> by the use of proposed OOS words, making (at least sometimes)
> the Forth program faster — and, as a kinda "bonus", clarity
> of the code increases.

After having avoided premature optimisation, every 'decent'
Forth programmer will recode some few bottleneck words e.g.
in assembler, where necessary. IOW microbenchmarking SQUARE,
which can be implemented in a handful of lines of machine code
or less, does not bring new insights.