Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!] Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:07:34 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2024Sep13.200734@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <87bk0vbvgk.fsf@nightsong.com> <66e0fa58$1@news.ausics.net> <66e11d64$1@news.ausics.net> <877cbh4b6z.fsf@nightsong.com> <66e2a497$1@news.ausics.net> <2024Sep12.121903@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <66e37b37$1@news.ausics.net> <05fd5a0056972ac60f43598f23a170ad@www.novabbs.com> <66e40a42$1@news.ausics.net> Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:11:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da068ec287f3285dee7d4af894aeb142"; logging-data="1046146"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IjMJFhRcYzt/VIrJNm2zr" Cancel-Lock: sha1:z5kAxwUniRaO+u5uHlUL6VMEdKE= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 2104 dxf 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 -- 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 2024: https://euro.theforth.net