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Small strings as ints

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Small strings as ints
Date 2016-01-22 08:41 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 22/01/2016 08:30, Raimond Dragomir wrote:

> Probably I'm not a typical forther, my stacks grows especially because
> of local variables usage. I even use small strings (let's say up to 32 chars)
> as local variables.

Hey!  Sticking a small string inside an 'int'... that sounds like a
possibly interesting optimization!  Only problem is it would add some
overhead to decide whether the string was allocated on the heap or
sitting inside an int...

Has anyone tried this?

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Stack space size Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 21:50 -0800
  Re: Stack space size hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-21 22:00 -0800
  Re: Stack space size Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 22:30 -0800
    Small strings as ints Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 08:41 +0200
      Re: Small strings as ints Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 23:41 -0800
        Re: Small strings as ints Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 09:50 +0200
      Re: Small strings as ints Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 07:15 +0200
  Re: Stack space size anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-22 15:31 +0000
  Re: Stack space size Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-22 17:10 -0500
    Re: Stack space size Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2016-01-22 23:21 +0100
      Re: Stack space size "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-01-22 13:28 -1000
        Re: Stack space size hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-25 21:23 -0800
    Re: Stack space size "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-01-24 00:08 +1100
    Re: Stack space size anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-26 16:23 +0000

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