A new RPL firmware for the 50g

[David Hayden]

Something that Bruce and I talked about was an RPL optimizer. It could replace stack manipulations like Pauli suggested, along with things like built-in constants. But the real benefit would come from knowing the stack diagrams of the entries and analyzing the types and number of values on the stack. For example, if it knows that the previous execution put two REALs on the stack and the next instruction is the UserRPL "*" command then it could replace that with %* (the SysRPL command to multiply two REAL numbers for readers who don't recognize it). I'm sure there are all sorts of other optimizations that can be made.

Pauli, just having you watching our progress would be a tremendously helpful contribution. Having done this before you could keep us pointed in the right direction. Of course, using the math code from the 34S would probably help too.

Dave