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Consider replacing + primitive with 2* #1

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larsbrinkhoff opened this issue Jun 16, 2017 · 0 comments
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Consider replacing + primitive with 2* #1

larsbrinkhoff opened this issue Jun 16, 2017 · 0 comments

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A single left shift ought to be smaller in hardware than an adder.

+ would be defined approximately as:

: +    begin ?dup while 2dup xor -rot and 2* repeat ;

Since this depends on xor, it would have to be recoded without +:

: xor   2dup nand dup >r nand swap r> nand nand ;
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