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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
Aah. I didn't realize Dalvik's VM was that different. I thought that, like the libraries, it was also a subset. (and, yes, I understand register based vs stack based ... I cut my assembly teeth on VAX-11 assembler ... and, RISC vs CISC isn't exactly register vs stack ... there were pre-RISC stack based architectures, and I think (but am not sure) that there are register based RISC architectures, as well)
Yeah, I figured you knew that -- edited above for clarity.

Sorry, I just meant to give an analogous, but better known, architecture dispute that was similarly long-running and unwinnable and to avoid people wondering "but which is better", not to suggest they were the same dispute.

And yes, there are register RISCs; you probably have one in your pocket (ARM).