On 9 Feb 2010 at 13:00, Dave McGuire wrote:
Our processors have registers, ALUs, and memory
locations...not
objects. (iAPX432 notwithstanding) Constructs that don't map to
that paradigm are going to be inefficient, to a degree that
corresponds to how badly they match the paradigm. And objects don't
map to it at all.
How about GOTO-less CPUs? Do any exist that completely lack a jump
instruction of any sort (I'm not counting those where PC is mapped as
a general register)?
--Chuck