From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Register VM WIP Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:05:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87ipfwi2tt.fsf@pobox.com> References: <871umqr8q0.fsf@pobox.com> <873972zczy.fsf@gnu.org> <87bolpmgew.fsf@pobox.com> <871umkbvp3.fsf@netris.org> <87fwb0k35g.fsf@pobox.com> <87sjf09r5v.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337180748 24765 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2012 15:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 17:05:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SUfnM-0000kj-0l for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 17:05:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUfnL-0005Ec-9F for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUfn9-0005EC-HP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUfn3-0006Jh-8F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:46536 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUfn3-0006Iz-05 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020D684AB; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:23 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=K1eUHs6T/aHgmiNnbPw05gINUIA=; b=ETvHSz +Iv/mJI5RHjRhPh7bSUK49adIey6vfhKwApBQEefTAPw7lc1JjSIqXSlgpPqsRrp AhM2e2Gas690w5fruiEFcN0STJaPElReeZEQwy+MhmcBrumRAcDrmarn+5MfEm05 uLaAz6HlQcUjRxXZgmwhVMRFGyEvvslbsTo+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qKQuF8sx7jxEclDkJkzanzEd3jQUOORp 2cgDSyW9DdEfRnKdu6EgbiJKjd1exD7rjSX156PoOR4tXLqUy/G+A7Qch9lzMuSy gne3yl5/6l62FW2HsXbFXDChCcDydRG53kVaxOwA7R48cwzqnrQlxn2Jc9bkqtTx lRiB408fxd8= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBF284A1; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [85.50.188.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 496F784A0; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:05:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Noah Lavine's message of "Wed, 16 May 2012 10:54:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8E883654-9F68-11E1-A5CC-E981AF15ED39-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14469 Archived-At: On Wed 16 May 2012 16:54, Noah Lavine 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 -- http://wingolog.org/