To: TChris
It's an interesting concept. I remember mainframes that had registers and no stack. But I think we'll continue to use architectures with both features for the foreseeable future. Stacks frames are great for passing arguments and containing local variables in structured programs, but good usage of registers can make a program fly.
11 posted on
08/10/2006 3:53:44 PM PDT by
HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
God ..you're gonna make us old Freeper's post about this, aren't yea....
Give us a break.!!!!
13 posted on
08/10/2006 9:18:03 PM PDT by
fedupjohn
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To: HAL9000
It's an interesting concept. I remember mainframes that had registers and no stack. But I think we'll continue to use architectures with both features for the foreseeable future. Stacks frames are great for passing arguments and containing local variables in structured programs, but good usage of registers can make a program fly. AFAIK, Curren't processors don't have a hardware stack. They just have registers. A "stack frame" is only a memory construct, not a hardware feature.
15 posted on
08/11/2006 7:21:21 AM PDT by
TChris
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