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Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory

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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> What this example shows is that CREATE should really FALIGN its body,
>
>For small systems like Amforth, maybe it would be better to have FCREATE
>and FDOES if you want float alignment.  Otherwise you waste memory.

Do such small systems support FP at all?  AmForth does not, judging by
its reference card.  My guess is that the intersection of systems that
have FP with >cell alignment requirements and that have so little
memory that the padding required these alignment requirements is
significant is empty or at least close to empty.  In these few cases
following Andrew Haley's suggestion and having special CREATE variants
with lower alignment requirements (possibly even one for character
alignment) may be appropriate (of course, one had to balance the
savings against the cost of actually including such words).

- anton
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Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-01-17 09:00 +0000
  Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-17 01:38 -0800
    Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-17 13:54 +0000
      Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-17 13:10 -0800
        Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-18 03:15 -0600
        Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-18 13:43 +0000
          Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-18 13:20 -0800
            Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-19 02:40 +0100
            Re: Rosetta Code: Accumulator factory anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-19 16:27 +0000

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