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eropple
on Nov 30, 2012
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Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM
Java's HotSpot is a stack machine, AFAIK. Dalvik is a register machine, but I wouldn't want to point to that as a positive. ;)
pbiggar
on Nov 30, 2012
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Internally, Hotspot doesn't use a stack representation. It converts it to an IR (internal representation) which is not stack based, which is my point. See Fig 2 from
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/java-ho...
eropple
on Dec 3, 2012
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Huh, so it's not. Thanks for the interesting read!
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