Re: P-Code and virtual machines

rau@slapshot.pa.dec.com (Larry Rau (Migration Software))
Tue, 5 Apr 1994 21:26:26 GMT

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From: rau@slapshot.pa.dec.com (Larry Rau (Migration Software))
Keywords: C, architecture
Organization: Migration Software
References: 94-03-137 94-03-164
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 21:26:26 GMT

> procedural language? I have experience with stack machines and they
> seem inappropriate for e.g., C.]


Isn't the AT&T chip a stack architecture! It was designed to run C
programs after much analysis of C programs. It was determined that C
programs relied on function calls enough that implementing a stack
machine with a large number of registers dedicated to acting like a
stack would improve performance.


I read an article about the Hobbit chip a while back, am I wrong on
this? Anyone have real experience on the Hobbit?


........larry
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