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Re:Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-b... by jamescostian on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:34PM (#13155080)
The last page of the publication has a GitHub link. Here are the relevant lines (I think):

https://github.com/Conceptual-Inertia/Conceptum/blob/master/...

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Re:Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-b... by lacampbell on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:40PM (#13155331)
Yeah, really naive. Ditto with their iadd commands, which pop twice (you need only pop once). I see this a lot - presumably because most people just aren't familiar with stack machines, as register machines are completely dominant in hardware.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155259 for an example of what I mean.

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