Feb. 5, 2013
8:22 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
No. The StackVM is a VM that optimizes interpreted execution by mapping contexts to stack frames and lazily instantiating contexts, but is still a pure interpreter. The Cog VM is a VM that optimizes execution by mapping contexts to stack frames and lazily instantiating contexts, /and/ by compiling methods used more than once to machine-code and implementing a number of send optimization schemes in that machine-code.
ok :)