Path: utzoo!censor!becker!geac!jtsv16!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: ANS FORTH/PICK and ROLL Message-ID: <6990@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Nov 89 12:39:47 GMT References: <931@mtk.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Distribution: usa Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <931@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes: > How WOULD you get along without them? I'm not being sarcastic or > facetious here, I really am curious. I'd love to get along without > them. Just don't use them. We used to get along just fine without PICK and ROLL, I don't see what harm they're doing, though, except for possible performance problems on some architectures. Personally I think PICK is pretty cheap (sp@ 2* + @), and should be retained. ROLL does a lot of copying, though, and is a lot less commonly used. In many cases just redesigning to avoid use of ROLL will give you a performance boost. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "*Real* wizards don't whine about how they paid their dues" -- Quentin Johnson quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu