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mostly curiosity: why a stack vm in particular? (is it because you then need to write the compiler for it?)
by nialo 10y ago
mostly curiosity: why a stack vm in particular? (is it because you then need to write the compiler for it?)
- tptacek 10y agoBecause if you're familiar with conventional real register architectures, the stack VM forces you to rethink it, in a much simpler way. It's a useful simplifying abstraction.
- vram22 10y agoThere used to be a lot of interest in, and articles about, stack machines (real ones, not VMs) back in the days of mags like BYTE and PC Mag. Good reading.