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Article #8008Re: What's RIGHT with stack machines
From: Nick Janow
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:08
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:08
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chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes: > It's also not clear to me that the stack machine will come with a simpler > pipeline. Branches will probably be just as bad there, ... There's some research being done into stack processors with no conditional branch instructions. Instead, there will be conditional calls (and maybe conditional returns?). These operations can be fast (one or zero clock cycles?) on a stack machine. I'm not sure if replacing branches with calls would reduce the problem of conditional anything, as far as pipelining is concerned, but I suppose it has possibilities. -- Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a684 From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow) Subject: Re: What's RIGHT with stack machines Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:08:09 GMT Message-ID: <17433@mindlink.bc.ca> Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet) Lines: 17