On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Brendan Moran wrote:

>What I'm really interested in is a processor that supports full stack
>orientation.  As I said, I haven't looked too closesly yet.  I will.
>But that is the real downfall of the x86 architecture; it is what
>will finally stop Intel's domination of the market.  I have been
>told, though I'm not certain that I can believe it, that the AMD
>architecture is stack oriented but is masked to look like a register
>oriented machine.  I'm sure that someone will now tell me whether
>that's true or not.
>
>Having built-in context saving is cool.  I like that idea.  What I
>would like is a processor that was capable of executing common C++
>instructions in a single opcode.  Similar to that 60GIPS processor
>that started this thread, but for C++.

There is abook about RISC architectures out there. I do not remember the
details, it goes through most of them and does some comparisons. The only
thing I remember is, it was green ? A quick search yields (third from
top):

http://www.eg3.org/WebID/chips/books/blank/book/a-z.htm

But this is not the book I meant.

Plug "SPARC architecture description" into Google for more. Here is a
discussion on SPARC stacks and register windows to whet your appetite ;-):

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/91-04-038

Peter

PS: I'm not a SPARC programmer.

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