[virtmach] parrot VM?

[Stephen Pelc]

From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
> One very significant drawback of stack-based VMs is that they are
> almost impossible to do meaningful optimizations on.  If your VM
> performs any substation optimization, you will often find that
> you have to translate from a stack-based rep to a register based
> representation anyway, losing any advantages the stack based VM
> gives you.
Please explain this further.

I ask because I have implemented optimising code generators for 
stack based token systems for six different CPU architectures, 
and my conclusion is that classical compiler technology works 
very well with stack-based VMs.

Stephen
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