The case against stack-oriented instruction sets
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
- Vol. 6 (3), 7-10
- https://doi.org/10.1145/859402.859403
Abstract
Stack-oriented (reverse-Polish-oriented) instruction sets have been claimed to be superior to register-oriented instruction sets. This paper refutes this claim and also shows that a third form is more desirable.Keywords
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