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From: lemay@lorelei.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Building A PostScript Toolset
Message-ID: <123996@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 20:45:06 GMT
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In <2251@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> 3. To prevent creating write-only code, set variable names to stack
> items at the start of the function [...] rather than using lots of dups,
> exchs, and rolls

Hm.  I was taught to use stack operations rather than lookup operations
whenever possible, since its faster that way.

Evil as hell to trace, tho.




-Laura Lemay			lemay%lorelei@sun.com
Redhead.  Drummer.  Geek.