Register versus stack based VMs
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- Subject: Register versus stack based VMs
- From: Duck <duck@...>
- Date: 2007年12月10日 08:13:17 +1100 (EST)
Apologies if this isn't strictly a Lua topic. In a recent discussion about
Dalvik (Google's mobile phone VM [?]), and at various other times in the
past couple of months, I've heard experts on this list saying that
register-based VMs are generally considered to give better performance
these days than stack-based ones.
I can see why "registers better than stack" for most modern CPUs and
chipsets...
...but would someone like to explain why this holds for bytecode VMs?
PS: Was reminded I wanted to ask this question by perusing LuaNews. I like
it (and please, don't make it a blog -- the world has enough blogs already
:-)