In the first book I read about C++, it went a little bit into the details of how code is actually executed on a machine (it mentioned the program counter, the call stack, return addresses, and such...

On an x86_64 architecture, a pointer is 8 bytes. It makes sense to me that sizeof(x) should return 8. I understand that a char is a single byte, and 5 bytes is the size of array z. What is the intu...

I am writing a simulator of the SECD machine in C# guided by the description on Wikipedia. I have the basic operations completed, but I am not sure how to implement the rap instruction. At Wikiped...

I'm looking for research paper or any other publication that compare different abstract machines (more than one) for execution of Prolog with prolog interpreters not based on abstact machines...