Comment by exceptione
3 days ago
Thanks for explaining that term. That sounds really bad indeed. Maybe this is way too technical, but representing them as stack pointers was unfeasible?
3 days ago
Thanks for explaining that term. That sounds really bad indeed. Maybe this is way too technical, but representing them as stack pointers was unfeasible?
The JVM (and other VMs for that matter) do not grant direct access to the stack.
But the good news is that the common case incurs no overhead.