[Python-ideas] Register based interpreter

Fri Feb 20 22:00:28 CET 2009

Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:07, Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:venkat83 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Has there been any discussion or effort on moving from a stack based
> interpreter to a more register based one?
> (my limited search in the archives did not yield me any results)
>>> Very limited work done way back in the day by I believe Skip Montanaro, 
> but it didn't get far enough for a complete implementation and it didn't 
> pan out anyway.

It was about 10 years ago, possibly before pydev, so google search in 
c.l.p might have something.