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No, it's a stack machine. See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3
by wereHamster 14y ago
No, it's a stack machine. See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3
- LeafStorm 14y agoThe stack is an abstraction used in the C API. If you look at the actual bytecode generated, it's all register-based.
- munificent 14y agoYou're both right. It has a stack that it uses for callframes and local variables, but the opcodes have operands to directly reference variables on it by index. In other words, it treats all of the stack for a given callframe as a set of registers.