> > Brendan, where DO you get this stuff from?

>From this, I concluded that a stack orientation was the best in terms of
> execution speed, code density, and silicon resources, but was complex to
> use, when programming in assembly, and was therefore not used much.  It is
> entirely possible that I misinterpreted the conclusion statements there,
and
> am entirely off-base.

I should point out that after playing around with an arbitrary expression,

(a^2+b)*b/(c+d) -e

 it seems that the stack solution took more instructions than the other two
architectures.  Perhaps that's not true for all expressions, perhaps it is,
and perhaps I was taking something for granted that I shouldn't.

One thing to be sure of, though, is that stack make subroutine calls a lot
nicer.  But, then that can be done on any system that has a stack pointer,
or something that can be used as one.

--Brendan

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