[Vm-dev] Android Cog VM/Pharo Builds at INRIA Jenkins

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:47:03PM -0400, Dmitry Golubovsky wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> 
> Denis Kudriashov  wrote:
> 
> > Can you explain what is CogVM without JIT?
> 
> Cog VM exists in two flavors: one is a pure interpreter (aka StackVM
> [1]) which is easy to port; another is JIT [2] (currently exists for
> x86, and some development of ARM version can be seen).
> 
> But even non-JIT Cog has better support of closures than the classic
> Squeak VM has (or had, at least per [3], maybe these days this is
> fixed in the classic VM as well)

Eliot implemented the closure support for the classic VM also, so all
current VMs provide closure support.

Dave


> 
> [1] http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2009/01/14/under-cover-contexts-and-the-big-frame-up/
> [2] http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2011/03/01/build-me-a-jit-as-fast-as-you-can/
> [3] http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2008/06/07/closures-part-i/
> 
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> Dmitry Golubovsky
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