[ruby-core:68508] Re: Seven stacks (and two questions)

On 2015/03/12 19:15, Jakub Trzebiatowski wrote:
> The Ruby Hacking Guide says that Ruby has… seven stacks. Is it an
> implementation choice (and it could be implemented with one stack),
> or is there really a need for seven logical stacks? For example, Lua
> has one stack, and still closures with upvalues are totally possible
> (it’s like Ruby’s blocks that can reference local variables of
> their enclosing method, but it works for any function with any
> upvalues).

RHG is a good book, but quite old for the core implementation.

> 2. When does Ruby generate `getdynamic` YARV opcode? Could you
> provide me with an example source code? (I really tried to make Ruby
> generate it. No results.)

No such instruction in YARV.
Do you mean `getlocal`?

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Nobu Nakada