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Article #128Re: What's wrong with stack machines?
From: Othman Ahmad
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 09:45
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 09:45
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Wayne H Scott (wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote: : : regards, Mark. : : I many disadvantage of a stack machine is directly due to the fact that : all operations work with the same set of arguments. : : You can hardly write two instructions that do not have a data dependance. : Try pipelining a stack machine or a super-scalar. : Every instruction needs to read the TOS and the instruction before has : not yet written the TOS. : This can be solved by using a bypass. It is like invisible registers. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: What's wrong with stack machines? Message-ID: <1992Nov1.094519.21110@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct30.172550.29256@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 09:45:19 GMT Lines: 18