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Distinguishing stack versus heap memory accesses and allowing processors to not have to, e.g., check stack reads against pending heap stores could certainly have performance benefits in the memory system. The Reduceron does that since Haskell doesn't have the sort of free pointers that make this infeasible in C:

https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/



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