Re: paper on implementation

[Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@...>]

> (Ok, I wasn't plain guessing when I made those decisions, but most
> papers I've seen on stack vs register based VMs and the like are
> mostly theoretical, or based on prototype/proof-of-concept
> implementations.

here's a link to a (short) 1997 paper which describes the rationale
for choosing a register-based vm for inferno, in preference to a
stack-based vm, for easier on-the-fly compilation:

        http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/hotchips.html