My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter

Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by nialo on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:25PM (#12554100)

mostly curiosity: why a stack vm in particular? (is it because you then need to write the compiler for it?)

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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by tptacek on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:37PM (#12554133)

Because if you're familiar with conventional real register architectures, the stack VM forces you to rethink it, in a much simpler way. It's a useful simplifying abstraction.

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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by vram22 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:09AM (#12554281)

There used to be a lot of interest in, and articles about, stack machines (real ones, not VMs) back in the days of mags like BYTE and PC Mag. Good reading.

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