"The implementation of Lua 5.0" by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf
… is a wonderful white paper about the interpreter design decisions of #Lua. Comprehensible for anyone understanding the difference of stack/register-based VMs and how function calls can be implemented with a stack.
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