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Advantages
of Stack architecture.
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Context
switching for interrupts takes essentially zero time
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Does
not need to be pipelined for ALU and operands, because
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the
operands are immediately available in the top of stack
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Code
is smaller than CISC programs by a factor of 2.5 to 8
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Comments
from Phil Koopman’s Book:
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Size
and Weight
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Power
and Cooling
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Operating
Environment
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Cost
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high-performance
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Parallel
processing
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