Lua also moved to a register-based design around the same time. The developers talk about that a bit in section 7 of this paper: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/

Lua also moved to a register-based design around the same time. The developers talk about that a bit in section 7 of this paper: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/jucs05.pdf http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/jucs05.pdf