Over the years, a central design goal was to execute more instructions in parallel, thus increasing the effective execution speed of a program.
This approach leads to a tremendous increase in execution speed.
This may be helpful when seeking better execution speed.
Improvements in 1982 further boosted the execution speed by about 10 percent.
This comes, however, at the price of execution speed.
Action was known for its execution speed, but never became popular beyond Atari home computers.
When a compiler was made available, execution speed could be increased by another factor of roughly 2.
And the execution speed was less than when compiling well to the register architecture.
The design is aimed at minimizing users' development time, with execution speed a secondary goal.
The promised benefits are faster execution speed and maintaining data over multiple sessions.