Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile · Search for Positive Negative Learning Experiences in comp.lang.forth
Author: Robert Patten
Date: Jan 9, 2007 19:25
...Absolute jumps can have as conditions always, carry/no carry, zero/not zero, odd/even parity, or positive/negative and take a 16-bit address. Relative jumps use signed 8-bit displacements and allow fewer conditions ...save the 10%% of code size you will do what you want. My experience is that the issue is typically 2x or more, not 1.1x...
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