On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > No, the original Lisp-M was meant for Lisp, period. It wasn't until > they started to fail that they ported to mainstream processors.
Well it is a shame they didn't last. > And, BTW, don't underestimate "mainstream" processors. The conventional > "wisdom" for a long time was that stack machines were always the way to > go even for VM's. Suddenly, VM's are starting to switch to > register-based VM's and are getting big performance gains. Every assembly I've ever learned (x86 and ARM) had a stack *and* registers. You seem to be drawing a distinction as if some CPUs have one but not the other. Please elaborate. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
