PixelMelt

Note: this was originally several Reddit posts, chained and linked. But now that Reddit is dying I've finally moved them out. Sorry about the mess.

URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/up206c/stack_machines_for_compilers/i8ikupw/ Summary: stack-based vs register-based in general.

There are a wide variety of machines that can be described as "stack-based" or "register-based", but not all of them are practical. And there are a lot of other decisions that affect that practicality (do variables have names or only address/indexes? fixed-width or variable-width instructions? are you interpreting the bytecode (and if so, are you using machine stack frames?) or turning it into machine code? how many registers are there, and how many are special? how do you represent multiple types of variable? how many scopes are there(various kinds of global, local, member, ...)? how much effort/complexity can you afford to put into your machine? etc.)

a pure stack VM can only access the top elemen

	import http.client
	import http.cookies
	import json
	import base64
	import hashlib
	from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import serialization
	from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import x25519
	from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import ec
	from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes

	import os


	sublime_binary_path = "/tmp/sublime_text" # FIXME: this is the absolute path to writable sublime_text binary.
	version_magic_string = "4126"
	sz_magic_string = 4
	version_magic_string_offset = 0x0002d78a # (Real offset from xxd)

	is_file_read = os.access(sublime_binary_path, os.R_OK)
	if not is_file_read:

	#!/bin/bash

	mkdir /tmp/rclone_install
	cd /tmp/rclone_install

	curl -s -O https://beta.rclone.org/rclone-beta-latest-linux-amd64.zip
	unzip -q rclone-beta-latest-linux-amd64.zip

	cd rclone-*-linux-amd64