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Subject: Forth on the Intel 80386
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Date: 1 Mar 90 02:02:42 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 7
Message 29        Tue Feb 27, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 23:30 EST
 
Re: PETE KOZIAR

 > The best reason for the inner interpreter on the 80x86 family is
 > because there's only really one stack, pointed to by S.  It makes
 > sense to use the fastest access for the most-used stack, namely,
 > the parameter stack.

Has anyone done some real anaysis on this?  With every high level definition
pushing something onto the return stack when it starts and popping it back off
when it is done, it seems as if the return stack is used more than the
parameter stack.

I've heard this argument for years.  I'm just curious if it has been
substantiated with fact.

DaR
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