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Re: Small strings as ints

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Small strings as ints
Date 2016-01-22 09:50 +0200
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On 22/01/2016 09:41, Raimond Dragomir wrote:

> As long as I can get the local variable address, there is no overhead and
> no optimization needed. And the stack strings are very nice, completely
> reentrant and no heap/dynamic allocation hassle.

Right, that's why I'm thinking it could be very good (in 8th) for small
items.  Just "allocate" in an int instead of in the heap.  It would
probably make things faster as well because the item being accessed
would more likely be in the CPU cache...

Still, needs to be tested and measured before getting excited.

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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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