List Commands Library for 50g

[DavidM]

(07-20-2018 08:58 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Any news? (this thread has finally more views than the other one http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-8209.html (list challenges) )

I've had a couple of detours, but some good progress has been made. I've managed to make some refinements to a couple of the stack commands as well as incorporating some enhancements to the operations of a few others. I also added a list-normalization command to address the issue identified in this thread.

Everything has tested well so far, and all of the new commands appear to be stable. The benefit of the stack commands is noticeable when there's a lot of stack items to be created/moved/dropped, but these commands may actually be slower than using built-ins in cases where there's not much data to be changed. Something like "NIP NIP" will always be faster than "2 3 DRPXY", for a variety of reasons. While I can include hints in the documentation about these kinds of considerations, I'm on the fence about whether the optimal use case would come up enough to warrant including them.

The offer still stands for anyone who'd like to get a sneak peek at the new features: send me a PM with an email address and I'll send you the latest build that includes an automated comprehensive test suite.