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   dxf  writes:   
   > ...Moore has never changed his position, switched his tune, introduced   
   > locals and mega-compilers - as the latter do today in an attempt to   
   > maintain the interest, maintain a following.   
      
   Weren't we just quibbling about small (few percent) efficency   
   differences between using locals and using stack words?  You get far   
   greater efficiency gains by using optimizing compilers.  If you feel   
   like the optimizing compiler is needless bloat and want to use an   
   interpreter instead, that's fine, it just means that (like most of us),   
   you've found that code speed isn't that important for whatever you're   
   doing.  Stephen Pelc posted a few days ago that in the past decade, his   
   customers have stopped asking for faster code.   
      
   I think that is a better takeaway than "well we can give up the   
   optimizing compiler, because using stack words instead of locals   
   recovers a few percent of the lost speed".   
      
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