From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   On 4/14/24 15:02, Stephen Pelc wrote:   
   > On 14 Apr 2024 at 01:47:20 CEST, "Krishna Myneni"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 4/13/24 12:55, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   >>> I just looked at the floating-point implementations of recent   
   >>> SwiftForth and VFX (finally present in the system from the start), and   
   >>> on iForth-5.1-mini (for comparison):   
   ...   
   >>>   
   >>> So apparently the 8 hardware FP stack items are enough for SwiftForth   
   >>> and VFX, while iForth prefers to use an FP stack in memory to allow   
   >>> for a deeper FP stack.   
   >>>   
   >> ...   
   >>   
   >> For me, an 8 item hardware fp stack limit is too limiting to be useful.   
   >> This is mostly because of my use of the fp stack for initializing tables   
   >> (arrays and matrices), and my coding style of returning more than 8   
   >> floats on the fp stack for some types of computation. No doubt one can   
   >> limit themselves to an 8-item fp stack, but I'd hate to have to code wit   
   >> such a limit.   
   >   
   > The manual (gasp) documents how to change the default FP package.   
   >   
      
   Good to know.   
      
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