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Does anyone know of the state of the art of stack and symbolic CPUs? I'm reading a few books that address stack computers and also symbolic CPUs, ones which ma
by bmitc 4y ago
Does anyone know of the state of the art of stack and symbolic CPUs?
I'm reading a few books that address stack computers and also symbolic CPUs, ones which may run things like Forth, Prolog, and Lisp directly on the CPU (or more directly rather than via abstractions sitting on top of Von Neumann architectures). The ideas in the books, such as those in A High Performance Architecture for Prolog, seem important and useful, but it's hard to tell if they aren't useful in today's modern age or if they simply fell out of favor or interest.
In today's age with FGPAs, ASICs, RISC-V, etc., it seems ripe territory for custom CPU development, but about the only thing I know of that is along the lines of the above is the GreenArrays GA144 chip.
https://www.greenarraychips.com/ https://www.greenarraychips.com/
- abecedarius 4y ago25 years old, but http://bernd-paysan.de/4stack.html http://bernd-paysan.de/4stack.html sounded interesting at the time.
- tdeck 4y agoThere were a bunch of Java chips in the early 2000s, and ARM cores with a subset of the JVM instruction set. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle