[transfire]

I should imagine implementing a register-based VM on a register-based CPU is going to have some advantages over a stack-based VM implemented on a register-based CPU. I wonder how well a register-based VM would fair on a stack-based CPU.

[shincert]

That's interesting. Are there any actual stack-based CPUs out there today?

[NonEUCitizen]

http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

[frjalex]

That's fascinating. Would love to see what performance such thing can actually perform.

[bogomipz]

>"I should imagine implementing a register-based VM on a register-based CPU is going to have some advantages over a stack-based VM implemented on a register-based CPU."

Can you elaborate why is that? What would those advantages be in practical terms?