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[Wolfgang Draxinger]

castironpi at gmail.com wrote:

>> days_in_month 12:
>> 31
>> 30
>> 28
>> 31
>> ...
>> 30
>> 31
>> assign $days days_in_month[$month]
> 
> This is missing
> days_in_month 12:
> 31
> break
> 30
> break

What shall there be missing? breaks? You noticed, that I defined
some artificial architecture on purpose. "days_in_month 12:"
tells it, that the next 12 blurps are tabular data, that can be
indexed. If the "interpreter" hits the line "days_in_month 12:"
it will unconditionally jump 12 instructions forward, where it
hits the assign instruction, which assignes a value from a table
by an index given into a variable. We're not talking about
Python here.

I introduced this "architecture" just to showcase that even in
the most "optimal" situation, where special RISC operations are
avaliable a LUT is still better suited.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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