Re: MISC-d Digest V96 #12

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: gut@elec.apana.org.au (alex lasky)
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 14:31:43 +1000
> 
> At the hardware level, variables and
> addresses are stored not in stacks but in memory registers on the processor chip
> and in the main memory.
> One of the most complex and time-consuming tasks that a compiler carries out
> is juggling variables between registers and the main memory.
> 
> "The aim of the HOLISTIC approach is to reorganise the chip's memory so it
> looks like a stack to the programming language, while the processor sees it as
> a series of registers. 

Bizarre.  This is exactly a description of Hobbit: are thses guys
really claiming to have invented this?  It's a funny world...

Andrew.