> They found, as RISC designers would have expected, that without a load-store design it was difficult to improve the instruction pipeline and thereby operate a

> They found, as RISC designers would have expected, that without a load-store design it was difficult to improve the instruction pipeline and thereby operate at higher speeds. They felt that all future processors would thus move to a load-store design, and built Inferno to reflect this. In contrast, Java and .NET virtual machines are stack based, a side effect of being designed by language programmers as opposed to chip designers That's some solid trash talk for Wikipedia.