begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:32:15PM -0800: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > 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.
When did x86 and ARM CPUs get a stack on the CPU? -- Most of the time, you use memory for the stacks, The CPU has a pointer, but a stack on chip it lacks. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
