[dewster]

>You do understand that hardware development has been shaped by C being the defacto standard low-level language?

No, I don't understand that, and honestly have no clue what you're talking about. C is about as simple as things come, and it doesn't necessarily make strange demands on the hardware. It may seem that I'm contradicting my previous statement, but C working well with hardware doesn't necessarily mean it is a force for shaping modern hardware.

Three operand register-based load / store machines make too much sense from a variety of angles for many (any?) other configurations to touch them, that's why they're everywhere.

Stack machines are inherently less efficient, and you only see a bunch of designs (mostly as amateur soft cores) to this day because they are almost trivial to for enthusiasts to implement, not because they kick ass.

[vanderZwan]

> No, I don't understand that, and honestly have no clue what you're talking about.

Clearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_m...

[dewster]

But we don't do this anymore, we don't build processors to cater to the particular needs of a particular high level language because we know now this approach to speeding things up is fundamentally misguided. Hardware is designed based on the types of calculations it is intended to do (DSP, GP, FP, GPU) and that's it. To do otherwise would be inefficient.