Implementation Issues for Superinstructions in Gforth
M. Anton Ertl, David P. Gregg · 2004
Combining Forth primitives into superinstructions provides nice speedups. Several approaches to superinstructions were explored in the Gforth project. This paper discusses the effects of these approaches on performance, compilation time, implementation effort, and on programming tools such as the decompiler and backtracing. 1