>"Of course the advantages such as easy code generation and high code density ma...

		bogomipz on Dec 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Register-based VMs have a higher performance than ... >"Of course the advantages such as easy code generation and high code density make stack machines a good intermediate compilation target, which then gets compiled to a register machine for actual execution" Are you referring to a specific language here or are you saying all register machine always compile to stack machines first?

In general they do. The JVM and .NET CLR being the most prominent examples.