Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!um-math!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!hpftc!zardoz!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!lorelei!lemay 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 References: <2251@optilink.UUCP> <3965@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: lemay@sun.UUCP (Laura Lemay) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 17 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.