20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
6:15 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Venkatraman S
Hi,
Has there been any discussion or effort on moving from a stack based interpreter to a more register based one? (my limited search in the archives did not yield me any results)
It's possible PyPy will investigate that, and the Python implementation on Parrot (which was stagnant last I checked) would obviously be register-based, but as for CPython, I don't think it's going to happen (at least not any time soon). The bytecode is stack-oriented through-and-through; it'd be quite a major change to become register-based. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com