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- From: "elliott chapin" <elliott.chapin@canrem.com>
- Subject: what's right with sta
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.4400.5531@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "elliott chapin" <elliott.chapin@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:00:04 EST
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- MG>Yes, for simple arithmetic expressions, they allow way cool
- MG>optimizations. But what do you do when you get to things like CSE? DUP
- MG>DUP SWAP SWAP ROT? Hardly efficient! 2 memory accesses for DUP, 4 for
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- Why would anybody write that in the first place?
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- Elliott Chapin
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