You are definitely correct. I meant that the instruction was nicer in a holistic sense, not better for implementation. (RISC is the way to go if you want to mak

You are definitely correct. I meant that the instruction was nicer in a holistic sense, not better for implementation. (RISC is the way to go if you want to make the implementation easy. It's remarkable how straightforward the ARM1 chip is, for instance.) I encourage people to read about the i432 processor, to get an idea of how wildly different a processor design can be. Among other things, objects are built into the processor. Object pointers are created by the processor, so you can't make an out-of-bounds pointer. (In other words, many current security issues don't exist.) The processor includes garbage collection, in hardware.