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by bakery2k
Tue Dec 27, 2016 1:02 pm
Forum: Development of MicroPython
Topic: Register-based virtual machine?
Replies: 3
Views: 4044

Re: Register-based virtual machine?

deshipu: "You could make a register-based machine, of course, but that wouldn't be Python anymore." Are you saying that it would not be possible to use a register-based VM for Python (i.e. without changing the language)? I don't think that's true - for example, Dropbox's Pyston uses a register-based...
by bakery2k
Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:10 pm
Forum: Development of MicroPython
Topic: Register-based virtual machine?
Replies: 3
Views: 4044

Register-based virtual machine?

I understand that MicroPython, like CPython, is built around a stack-based virtual machine and corresponding bytecode. Have there been any thoughts about the alternative: a register-based VM (as used by, for example, recent versions of Lua [1])? In general, the performance of register-based machines...