sinclairtarget

" cat

   lac 017777 i            " Load accumulator (AC) with argument count
   sad d4                  " Skip next if we have more than 4 words of args
   jmp nofiles             " Otherwise, jump to nofiles
   lac 017777              " Load AC with address of args
   tad d1                  " Increment AC by 1, past argument count
   tad d4                  " Increment AC by 4, now AC points to first real arg
   dac name                " Save arg pointer from AC into 'name'

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Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD