From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Register VM WIP
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:05:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipfwi2tt.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+U71=NNpFPKrG5WUeatoRJfos=9YRd3R_L3Q3GRn1fT=ixUQg@mail.gmail.com> (Noah Lavine's message of "Wed, 16 May 2012 10:54:37 -0400")
On Wed 16 May 2012 16:54, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:
> In our current VM, we have two stacks: the local-variable stack, which
> has frames for different function calls and is generally what you'd
> think of as a stack, and the temporary-variable stack, which is
> literally a stack in the sense that you only operate on the top of it.
Nice explanation! Surely "register vm" is a poor name, if one can have
a variable number of registers -- registers are normally something of
which one has a fixed number.
Cheers,
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-11 16:19 Register VM WIP Andy Wingo
2012-05-11 20:29 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-05-16 15:01 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-14 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-14 21:28 ` Andrew Gwozdziewycz
2012-05-15 18:45 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 0:39 ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16 4:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16 7:15 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 13:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16 14:00 ` David Kastrup
2012-05-16 14:54 ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16 15:05 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2012-05-16 20:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-16 14:58 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 16:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16 16:39 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 18:23 ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16 7:10 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-15 18:49 ` Andy Wingo
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