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dkersten on Nov 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now ...

Yes, LLVM is a register machine and CPUs are register machines. My point really was that one shouldn't avoid stack-based languages or virtual machines because CPUs don't work that way, since some of the most used and most popular virtual machines are stack machines and get by just fine. (AFAIK both JVM and CLR are stack-based)

kabdib on Nov 23, 2011 [–]

The big difference between FORTH and other stack machines (e.g., the JVM) is the runtime.

FORTH doesn't have one to speak of. No dynamic memory management, no garbage collection. It's about as bare-bones as you can get.

PostScript, the JVM, the CLR and so forth are all backed by runtimes with powerful functionality.

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