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> Are stacks mainly used in software design while registers are mainly used in hardware design? Not necessarily. BEAM, the Erlang VM, used by Erlang, Elixir an
by rdtsc 4y ago
> Are stacks mainly used in software design while registers are mainly used in hardware design?
Not necessarily. BEAM, the Erlang VM, used by Erlang, Elixir and other languages is a register software machine. https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/ https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/