From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Krishna Myneni  writes:   
   >Ah, so optimizing Forth compilers can do a compile-time check for   
   >literal shifts and not have to insert instructions for compare and   
   >branch   
      
   Yes.   
      
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