23 Oct
2006
23 Oct
'06
9:23 a.m.
On 23 Oct 2006 at 9:41, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Is it possible that a stack machine could actually
fast? Wow! We must
be in an alternate universe or something!
All of which to my original point, looks to be a non-sequitur.
Give me an example of a supercomper using a stack architecture.
Certainly, I can emulate any kind of architecture using any other
(complete) architecture--I should hope so!
But when raw performance counts (i.e. supercomputers) why are there
no examples of stack machines? The architecture's been around long
enough; implementors have pretty much a free hand with architecture;
customers don't care what the ISA is--so where are all of the high-
performance stack supercomputers?
Certainly there have been interesting implementations through time.
Heck, I was a fan of dataflow machines, once.
Cheers,
Chuck