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Cog VMs released

In his recent post, Eliot Miranda has announced that Teleplace Cog VMs are now available. The excerpt from the original announcement follows:

The Cog VMs are Squeak/Croquet VMs that run closure Squeak/Croquet/Pharo/Cuis images. This release contains two distinct VMs, the StackInterpreter and the Cogit. The StackInterpreter is a fully-portable plug-in replacement for the current closure Squeak VMs and images. The Stack VM uses context-to-stack mapping and a somewhat improved garbage collector to achieve modest but useful performance gains in the 10% to 15% range. The StackInterpreter is intended to supersede the Squeak VM on platforms where the Cogit cannot be used. The Cogit extends the StackInterpreter with a just-in-time compiler that uses aggressive inline caching techniques to deliver substantial performance gains in the 3x to 15x range, depending on benchmark.

For more information look at the original post

Posted by rush at 24 June 2010, 1:30 pm with tags smalltalk link