Re: Stack based-Register Based

> Vinoth Kumar <vinoth@india.ti.com> writes:
> > What is the motivation behind designing Java as a stack based,
> > when lots of processors around us are register based.
>
> I was not involved in the design, so I can only guess:
>
> The JVM was first implemented in an interpreter, and that has probably
> influenced the design; for interpreters stack machines are a good
> choice (see my posting in the "Interpreter design" thread in
> comp.compilers).


For an alternative view, see "The Design of the Inferno virtual machine"
by Phil Winterbottom and Rob Pike, an HTML version of which can be
found at:


http://www.vitanuova.com/papers/hotchips.html


    cheers,
        rog.

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