Register vs. stack based VMs
Traditionally the virtual machine architecture of choice has been the stack machine; benefits include simplicity of VM implementation, ease of writing a compiler back-end (most VMs are originally...
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The modern answer to what instructions should a computer support is: lots (e.g., many kinds of: add, subtract, compare, branch, load, store, etc). John von Neumann’s famous First Draft of a Report on...
View ArticleRegister vs. stack based VMs
Traditionally the virtual machine architecture of choice has been the stack machine; benefits include simplicity of VM implementation, ease of writing a compiler back-end (most VMs are originally...
View ArticlePrograms spent a lot of time repeating themselves
Inexperienced software developers are always surprised that programs used by lots of people can contain many apparently non-trivial faults and yet continue to operate satisfactorily; experienced...
View ArticleWhat instructions should a computer support?
The modern answer to what instructions should a computer support is: lots (e.g., many kinds of: add, subtract, compare, branch, load, store, etc). John von Neumann’s famous First Draft of a Report on...
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