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The "belt" is very reminiscent of a stack. I was generalizing, but it is much closer to the traditional stack machine in terms of execution without registers th
by trsohmers 11y ago
The "belt" is very reminiscent of a stack. I was generalizing, but it is much closer to the traditional stack machine in terms of execution without registers than a load/store based RISC machine like every other mainstream architecture is at this point... Even though x86 is technically a CISC ISA, the actual mainstream implementations of it are RISC internally.
At least for myself and my computer architecture friends/colleagues, most of us just throw Mill into the stack machine box even if it is not entirely true... the benefits of the Belt architecture over the traditional stack machine are there in concept, but Mill has also not released any real concrete information on their compilers (at least from what I have seen).