The case against stack-oriented instruction sets

  • Authors:
  • Glenford J. Myers

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Systems Research Institute, New York, New York

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
  • Year:
  • 1977

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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.