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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Interpreter
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Date: 3 Mar 90 05:15:30 GMT
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 Date: 03-01-90 (11:46)              Number: 2988 (Echo)
   To: PETE KOZIAR                   Refer#: 2967
 From: DAVID ALBERT                    Read: NO
 Subj: INNER INTERPRETER             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 I would have thought that the return stack gets more use than any other
 (the paramter) stacks.  You are quite right about the extra byte in the
 instruction prefix though.
 However, since memory is cheap and plentiful in almost any machine these
 days (particularly on 80x86 types) that is not of concern.  One
 particularly nice feature of the subroutine threading is that it greatly
 facilitates expansion to larger memory models without brutally slowing
 the inner interpreter.
 (Memory models...yuk!)
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