[ Quoting Keith Douglas to Scott Little ] 
 SL> That said, it seems CISC still has some advantages over RISC
 SL> when it comes to Java. eg. CISC's PUSH and POP can be valuable to handle
 SL> Java's stack operations more efficiently than RISC.
 KD> This is just ridiculous.  'CISC' is a class of CPUs.
Rooly and trooly?
 KD> For instance, the Motorola 68000 family has no 'PUSH' instruct, it has
 KD> PEA. Same with RISC...
RISC uses a combination of a register increment/decrement followed by a load
or a store, to replace PUSH and POP.
This allows the CISC processors to handle Java's stack operations faster than
many RISC processors.
You can't argue with this. It's plain fact. However it doesn't mean CISC are
always any better off than RISC. CISC are let down by other components.
 KD> Though this is dangerously close to off topic...
Ok.
Regards,
 - Scott
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