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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Subject: Re: Metrics on stack usage
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:22:21 -0400
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Anton Ertl wrote:

> Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
> >I am working on a code generator for a stack processor.
> >Who better to ask about real stack requirements than a forth group.
> >
> >The question is what is the expected stack requirements for a
> >forth implementation?
>
> I am not sure what you are looking for, but you may find data of
> interest to you in:
>
> @InProceedings{ertl95pldi,
>   author =       "M. Anton Ertl",
>   title =        "Stack Caching for Interpreters",
>   crossref =     "sigplan95",
>   pages =        "315--327",
>   url =          "http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl95pldi.ps.gz",
>   abstract =     "An interpreter can spend a significant part of its
>                   execution time on arguments of virtual machine
>                   instructions. This paper explores two methods to
>                   reduce this overhead for virtual stack machines by
>                   caching top-of-stack values in (real machine)
>
>
> >Is there any benchmark code that test stack usage?
>
> <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/appbench-1.2.zip> is a set of
> Forth applications used as benchmarks.  If you want to have something
> that has typical stack behaviour, you could do worse than to use these
> benchmarks.
>
> - anton
> --
> M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
> comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
>      New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
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Thanks.

w..