On Wed, January 26, 2005 13:30, Helmar Wodtke said: > retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb am 26.01.05 22:20:57: > With a shorter loop: > >> ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> code 'ztype',ztype >> push ebx ; >> push ecx ; >> upop ebx ; >> lea ecx, byte [ebx - 1] >> .a: inc ecx >> cmp byte [ecx], 0 >> jnz .a >> sub ecx,ebx >> jmp type.a >> ; next > > Ron, expert :) Faster? > Dunno. I have a 'ztc' word which takes a zstr and returns a forth string/count Zstring ztc type ; ( zstr -- zstr len ) code 'ztc', _ztc push eax ; save ptr mov edi, eax xor eax, eax mov ecx, -1 repne scasb pop eax sub edi, eax dec edi upsh edi next I haven't tried to make it smaller or faster yet... > > > -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- > -- Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature > -- File: smime.p7s > -- Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > > > -- My GPG public key is at http://ronware.org/ fingerprint: 8130 734C 69A3 6542 0853 CB42 3ECF 9259 AD29 415D