On: Stack Computers: the new wave (1989)

[amelius]

Afaik, the Java virtual machine is also heavily stack-based.

[tamana → amelius]

Is that relevant to the hardware implementation though?

[protomyth → tamana]

I seem to remember that the attempts at implementing the JVM in hardware haven't worked out all that well and the stack implementation was blamed for their inability to beat a software implementation on x86. I wonder if anyone here has more information or personal experience?